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Fwd: Adding Value for Society Members - develop your publishing programme
by Jeremy Hunsinger 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

This might be something for some AoIR member to attend if they are in the vicinity. Begin forwarded message: > From: "Lesley Ogg (ALPSP)" <events(a)ALPSP.ORG> > Date: June 15, 2006 1:45:07 PM EDT > To: JISC-E-COLLECTIONS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Adding Value for Society Members - develop your publishing > programme > Reply-To: "Lesley Ogg (ALPSP)" <events(a)ALPSP.ORG> > > * With apologies for crossposting* > > > > It's not too late to book for this ALPSP seminar > > > > Adding value for society members - develop your publishing programme > > > > Chair: Mike Rodd, British Computer Society > > > > Friday 7 July 2006 (0900 - 1245) > > www.alpsp.org/events/2006/AVS/default.htm > > > > This seminar will discuss the broader benefits that a society’s > publishing > activities can offer its membership. Traditionally these include > direct > benefits such as offering publications and information at reduced > prices and > using publishing revenue to support the wider aims of the society > through > activities such as education and research. > > > > During a time of unprecedented change in the publishing environment, > developing the range of publishing services and benefits offered to > members > can benefit a society not only in terms of revenue earned but also by > encouraging membership and improving the standing of the > speciality. The > speakers will discuss the direct benefits which can be offered but > also > explore the wider possibilities of providing new ways of > communicating with > a society’s members, such as enhanced web sites, membership portals > and > discussion forums. They will also look at wider issues such as the > value of > forming strategic alliances and cooperative ventures. > > > > Who should attend? Publishing Managers, Information Officers, > Membership > Secretaries and Executive Secretaries from both small and large > learned > societies who need to plan strategically for the longer term. The > discussions will also be of interest to organisations and > publishers who > work with societies. > > > > PROGRAMME > > > > 0900 REGISTRATION > > > > 0930 Introduction > Mike Rodd, British Computer Society > > > > 1000 What direct benefits can be offered to Society members > Leon Heward-Mills, Thomas Telford Publishing > > > > 1030 What more can be done with the publications to provide new and > enhanced connections for members? > Andrew Davies, The Institution of Engineering and Technology > > > > 1100 COFFEE > > > > 1130 Case Study: Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists > Richard Baber & Jane Moody > > > > 1200 Strategic Alliances – working with other societies or > organisations > Sue Thorn, Society for Endocrinology > > > > 1230 Discussion > > > > 1245 CLOSE AND LUNCH > > > > Venue: British Institute of Radiology, 36 Portland Place, London > W1B 1AT > > > > Fees: including lunch (excl VAT) ALPSP members £95.00; Academic & FST > members £110.00; SSP/SFEP individual members £145.00; Non Members > £180.00 > > > > Book online at: www.alpsp.org/events/2006/AVS/default.htm or > contact me for > further information. > > Lesley Ogg > Seminars & Website Coordinator > Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers > Email events(a)alpsp.org Tel 01245 260571 Fax 01245 260935 www.alpsp.org > <http://www.alpsp.org/> > > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.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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Re: [Air-l] Korean Students
by 'Gail Taylor 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

In following this discussion, it appears that the information the students shared in their postings is being lost in the discussion relating to listserv protocol issues. I found the information that was introduced to be quite helpful, especially in regard to gaining some additional insights into what's going on in South Korea that has the potential to impact the use of mobile information and communications devices in other countries of the world. Their postings came across to me as being appropriate for this list, especially considering that members include those of us who are interested in mobile Internet technologies. ~ Gail Gail Taylor, M.Ed. Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student U of I Urbana-Champaign

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Call for papers -- Communicative Ecologies --please post
by Teresa M Harrison 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS Special Issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication (EJC) Communicative Ecologies The concept of ecology has a lot to offer communication research. Broadly, it refers to the context in which the communication process occurs. More specifically, we can define a communicative ecology as a milieu of agents who are connected in various ways by various exchanges. Our particular interest in the concept stems from our study of people in particular places with access to many different media. Using an ecological metaphor opens up a number of interesting possibilities for analyzing place- based communication (e.g., in neighbourhoods, apartment buildings, or - on a larger scale - suburbs and cities). It can help us to better understand the ways social activities are organized, the ways people define and experience their environments, and the implications for social order and organization. We invite the submission of conceptual or empirical (quantitative or qualitative) work on the theme of communicative ecologies in any place-based setting. The special issue is scheduled for publication in mid 2007. Deadline for completed manuscripts: 31 Oct 2006. Submissions should be electronic (.doc or .rtf format only, please avoid .pdf and .html). Inquiries about possible topics are welcome. For the full call for papers, see http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/calls/hearnfoth.htm. Submissions and inquiries should be directed to the guest editors: Professor Greg Hearn Director g.hearn(a)qut.edu.au Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow m.foth(a)qut.edu.au Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries Precinct Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone + 61 7 3864 3765 Fax + 61 7 3864 3723 Web http://ici.qut.edu.au/

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Open Communities and Closed Law
by Joseph Reagle 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

[[ http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/culture/wikipedia/open-discourse-closed-law?s… What does the recent news of a Wikipedia CEO who is also a lawyer, an "oversight" function that makes hidden revisions to Wikipedia, and the threat of the Debian Project severing its relationship with its legally chartered non-profit have in common? A strong indication that open communities with a formal legal standing are a conflicted beast. ]] Should we have a new form of legal collectivity? Would it ever be possible?

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Re: [Air-l] <Introduce interesting News about Wibro>
by Ellis Godard 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Nothing wrong with being a German, of course. (I'm Bavarian by birth - born in Nuremburg and lived in Oberkatasu while my father was stationed in Hof on the Saale.) I meant German as distinct from English - that is, ESL of any sort. :) Bitte, annehmen meine bescheidene entschuldigung - und meine schrecklicher Deutsche. :) -eg > -----Original Message----- > From: Nils Zurawski [mailto:nils.zurawski@uni-hamburg.de] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:47 AM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard(a)csun.edu > Subject: Re: [Air-l] <Introduce interesting News about Wibro> > > > Dear Ellis and other list members, > > just to explain my posting, which seem to have > irritated you. I was not sure if these postings > were spam or legitimate postings by some student, > who were not aware of the lists content and the > appropriate forms of communication on a list. > Because the English was not always correct, I was > assuming this, as I thought that plain commercial > spam would not contain such mistakes. I did not > want to stigmatise anyone. But I have to ask what > you Ellis mean by "particularly a German"? Is > there any problem with me being German? Or was > this a general remark on me not being a native > English speaker. > > I hope I watched out for typos in this posting and for > punctution as well. best wishes nilz > > >I'm surprised that anyone on this list, particularly a German whose > >messages (even here) include typos and punctuation errors, > would risk > >stigmatizing incorrect English by identifying it as an indicator of > >spam. > > -- > Dr. Nils Zurawski > Universität Hamburg > Inst. für kriminologische Sozialforschung > Allende-Platz 1 > 20146 Hamburg > Germany > tel. +49 (0) 40 42838 6185 > fax. +49 (0) 40 42838 2328 > > Projekt zu Videoüberwachung: http://www.surveillance-studies.org/blog >

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<Introduce interesting News about Wibro>
by Sang-Hee Jung 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi, all I'm Sang-Hee Jung last months, I read Korea Times about Wibro. It's very interesting. so I hope introduce you. The news subject is " Wibro to Meet Cell Phone" http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200605/kt2006053017172010220.htm The key content of the news is that South Korea's two iconic mobile technologies will merge this year- the code division multiple access(CDMA) for mobile telephony will combine with portable Internet-enabling Wibro. Wibro is very interesting technology. I expect developing Wibro technology. What you think about this? If you tell me something about this, send me a reply, please. I hope so, these are useful informations to you. Thanks. Sang-Hee Jung, Yeungnam University student. Mail: readlove@empal.com------------------------------------------------------------------------ 새로운 기부 문화의 씨앗, 해피빈 http://happybean.naver.com

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tip re: korean students
by andrea baker 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Peter, If you are still here, I'm curious. What did you mean by this? "This list I find has many conference calls which I must ignore." Do you mean that the list has topics posted to by more than one member that don't interest you, and so you skip over them? cheers, andee

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Another Tip Re: Korean students
by R.Mabry-Hubbard (UMC Student) 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

> . . . a little dose of social networks and cultural capital... > If you repeat this exercise, why not get students to learn how to make > an introduction, ... I would add for next time, perhaps use a pedagogical sympathetic group such as WWWEDU listserv (Use of the WWW in Education); DIGITALDIVIDE list; Ed-Tech list (Educational Technology) http://www.edwebproject.org/wwwedu.html http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/digitaldivide http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb/ BTW, I liked your innovative assignment ------ Robin Y. Mabry Hubbard, MBA, EdS Rural Sociology Doctoral Student - Community Informatics Email: ryh352(a)mizzou.edu My Homepage: http://www.rrchubbard.org Murphy's Law: There is never enough time to do it right; but there is always time to do it over ~ Our Future arrived Yesterday! ~ [I am not inviting any postmodernist to my party!]

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FW: CALL FOR POSTERS - 17th Annual ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop
by Rowin Young 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Possibly of interest to some list members? Best wishes, Rowin ------ Forwarded Message From: Joseph Tennis <jtennis(a)INTERCHANGE.UBC.CA> Reply-To: Joseph Tennis <jtennis(a)INTERCHANGE.UBC.CA> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:43:58 -0700 To: <DC-GENERAL(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: CALL FOR POSTERS - 17th Annual ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop 17th Annual ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop Saturday, November 4, 2006 -- Austin, TX CALL FOR POSTERS IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of abstracts: August 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2006 Submission of final abstracts in PDF format: September 15, 2006 Presentation of posters at SIG/CR Workshop: November 4, 2006 CALL FOR POSTERS: Students interested in social classification, social tagging, bookmarking, tagspace studies, collaborative indexing and annotation, folksonomies, etc., are invited to submit posters outlining their research, for presentation at the SIG/CR Workshop on Social Classification. Abstracts of posters should be submitted by August 1, 2006. (An earlier call for abstracts of full papers had a deadline of June 1, 2006.) Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words and should outline the purpose, scope, approach, findings, and implications of the research. Posters will be reviewed by the international SIG/CR Workshop program committee. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Social Classification: Panacea or Pandora? Social classification (SC) is a convenient, generic label that may be used to refer to any of a number of broadly related processes by which the resources in a collection are categorized by multiple people over an ongoing period, with the potential result that any given resource will come to be represented by a set of labels or descriptors that have been generated by different people. The specific processes in question include indexing, tagging, bookmarking, annotation, and description of kinds that may be characterized as collaborative, cooperative, distributed, dynamic, community-based, folksonomic, wikified, democratic, user-assigned, or user-generated. The mid-2000s have seen rapid growth in levels of interest in these kinds of technique for generating descriptions of resources for the purposes of discovery, access, and retrieval. Systems that provide automated support for social classification may be implemented at low cost, and are perceived to contribute to the democratization of classification by empowering people, who might otherwise remain strictly consumers of information, to become information producers. Efforts to conduct serious evaluations of the comparative effectiveness of such systems have begun, but results are scattered and piecemeal. Compared with retrieval systems based on traditional methods -- manual or automatic -- of classifying resources, how effectively are users of SC-based systems able to find the resources that they want? What is the impact on retrieval effectiveness of systems designers' decisions to pay limited attention to traditionally important components such as vocabulary control, facet analysis, and systematic hierarchical arrangement? Current implementations of SC tend to shy away, for instance, from imposing the kind of vocabulary control on which classification schemes and thesauri are conventionally founded: proponents argue that social classifiers should be free, as far as possible, to supply precisely those class labels that they believe will be useful to searchers in the future, whether or not those labels have proven useful in the past. But do the advantages that are potentially to be gained from allowing classifiers free rein in the choice of labels outweigh those that may be obtainable by imposing some form of vocabulary and authority control, by offering browsing-based interfaces to hierarchically structured vocabularies, by establishing and complying with policies for the specificity and exhaustivity of sets of labels, and/or by other devices that are designed to improve classifier-- searcher consistency? Other questions arise as a result of the reliance of SC-based systems on volunteer labor. Given the distributed nature of SC, for example, how can it be ensured that every resource attracts a critical mass of descriptors, rather than just the potentially-quirky choices of a small number of volunteers? Given the self-selection of classifiers, how can it be ensured that they are motivated to supply class labels that they would expect other searchers to use? In general, are reductions in the costs of classification (borne by information producers) achieved only at the expense of increases in the costs of resource discovery (borne by consumers)? The workshop will be held on NOVEMBER 4, 2006, as part of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Austin, TX. It will be the 17th in a series of annual workshops organized by ASIS&T's Special Interest Group on Classification Research (SIG/CR). Please see http://www.asis.org/ Conferences/AM06/am06call.html for further general information about the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, and http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~klabarre/ SIGCR.html for further information about SIG/CR. SUBMISSIONS: Abstracts of posters should be submitted to both workshop co-chairs by email (see below) by August 1, 2006. Authors will be notified of the program committee's decision by September 1, 2006. PDF copies of the final versions of abstracts should then be submitted to both workshop co-chairs by September 15, 2006. Posters will be presented on November 4, 2006. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Jonathan Furner (furner at gseis dot ucla dot edu) Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Joseph Tennis (jtennis at interchange dot ubc dot ca) Assistant Professor, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Joseph T. Tennis, PhD Assistant Professor Coordinator for the MAS and MLIS First Nations Concentration School of Library, Archival and Information Studies The University of British Columbia 301 - 6190 Agronomy Road Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 CANADA phone: 1.604.822.2431 fax: 1.604.822.6006 jtennis(a)interchange.ubc.ca http://www.slais.ubc.ca/PEOPLE/faculty/tennis-p/index.htm ------ End of Forwarded Message

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Special Session at Euro mGov 2006. Call for papers
by A.C.Roibas＠bton.ac.uk 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

ENHANCING SOCIAL PARTICIPATION FOR THE NEW MOBILE COMMUNITIES ACROSS PERVASIVE INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS: M-ITV & PRODUCTION OF SELF-AUTHORED CONTENT a Special Session at the Euro mGov 2006, 30-31 August & 1 September 2006, Sussex University, Brighton, UK http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org Session Chair: Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton CONTENT m-TV will go beyond the mere broadcast of TV or download of music, video clips. It will need to pay special attention to the contextual usage of this media and solve new issues for handhelds such as the low usability, sociability, creativity, contextual sensitivity and interaction that so far they enable. According to socio-cultural and technological trends in this area, it is possible to prospect a use of mobile interactive multimedia systems in future communication scenarios where the user can create and share self-authored & contextual digital content, giving a new dimension to the TV experience and extending and enhancing it outside the home boundaries and, at the same time, opening opportunities in new subjects such as m-Gov by encouraging social participation and democracy. The aim of this special session is to give a glance to the future of m-Gov and pervasive-Gov and stimulate discussion around prospected scenarios of pervasive interactive multimedia in which nomadic users can create, edit and share self-authored content with their mobile phones facilitating in this way government and social activities and, at the same time, enhancing democracy. Such systems can to improve users access to social services, to facilitate government activities as well as access to context-based infotainment and to encourage social participation. Two users groups will particularly benefit from these systems that enable social participation: the youth will have access to appealing and user friendly applications. Moreover, accessible GOV systems across handhelds and new ambient interfaces can contribute to reduce the digital divide in a dramatically growing ageing society. Moreover, new challenges for pervasive communications systems (interoperability between handhelds, i-TV, PCs, in-car-navigators, smart office and the smarthouse), tangible computing and intelligent environments are currently will definitely affect the user experience in mobile and pervasive Gov-systems. The session will create a provocative framework for future interactive mobile and pervasive Government applications and will generate a debate with the audience around the emerging and contentious topic of using mobile devices as main interfaces in a pervasive-Government experience. It is expected that the presenters will promote inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary discussion about a range of HCI issues including: enabling mobile users to create and share self authored multimedia content, using handhelds to share moods, information and co-creating, management of multiple user interactions, interaction between mobile phones and other devices, the development of usable design models for interactive Government services in convergent media, special HCI considerations around media sharing, new applications and new forms of interactive content more suitable in pervasive-Gov contexts. Other ethical, legal, business and social implications of ubiquitous communications may also be raised. The session will conclude with a summarization of the most relevant outcomes of the discussion. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Intersection between m-Government, e-Gov and iTV-Government New forms of self-authored content for m-Government and pervasive-Government Context awareness in m-Government Usability evaluation methodologies for m-Government applications Accessibility in pervasive-Government: AAA compliance. Multi-modal interaction in m-Gov and pervasive-Gov Privacy and security control in m-Gov and pervasive-Gov applications Ethical and sociological issues about the democracy implications of pervasive-Gov Technological, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of pervasive Government systems; New challenges in pervasive Government systems: interoperability between interfaces, tangible computing, intelligent environments, etc; Innovative research approaches and the creation of feasible and relevant future scenarios; Advanced interaction models (immersive environments, humanising interfaces, haptics, etc); understanding and supporting sociability in social electronic media OBJECTIVES This Special session addresses the following issues: analysing suitable methodologies and techniques to design pervasive GOV scenarios which are characterized by the intersections between mobile devices and iTV understanding how nomadic cultures affect (and will affect) GOV activities. unfolding experimental research methodologies to understand user-experience in future pervasive GOV scenarios sharing a roadmap of feasible scenarios and representative applications for pervasive GOV investigating possible interactive models in pervasive GOV; exploring the potential of novel interfaces design within advanced and pervasive communication scenarios for government accounts of the particular challenges of studying and designing for sociability in social electronic media evaluating social participation with user based evaluation (e.g. user testing) or expert based evaluation (e.g. heuristic evaluation) The aim of this Special Session is to build a multidisciplinary research community around the topic. AUDIENCE The Special Session is intended for managers of HCI projects working in mGOV related projects with iTV, web and mobile (telecom companies, device manufacturers, broadcasters, government institutions, service and content providers, etc.); industrial designers; human factors practitioners; interface evaluators and testers; HF academics, researchers and students with interests in human computer interaction and CSCW systems; designers in general and new trends consultants . Although no particular skills are required, basic knowledge of HCI design issues is recommended. SUBMISSION You can submit either a full paper or extended abstract. However only full papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Long papers: All interested authors should send a 10 pages-long paper to the session chair at a.c.roibas(a)brighton.ac.uk to see the suitability of their paper for the session. All full paper submissions are subject to EURO mGOV submission and double-blind review procedures as outlined at: http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/Submissions.htm. Please send your full paper submissions to submissions(a)mgovernment.org *and* copy (Cc) ing to the session chair at a.c.roibas(a)brighton.ac.uk by the full paper submission deadline indicating special session on the subject line *and* the title at the top of the first page of the paper. Extended abstracts and late break-in papers: Extended abstracts and late break-in papers (although these wont be double-blind reviewed) will be also considered for publication in the proceedings. DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS 7th July 2006

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