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Reminder CFP: Special Issue on Public Computing in City Contexts
by Irina Shklovski 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

This is a reminder that call for articles for a special issue of IEEE Computer on Public Computing in the City ends **February 15, 2006** We are seeking articles approximately 6000 words in length (including figures and references) Author guidelines and submission instructions are available at www.computer.org/portal/pages/computer/mc/author.html Please send inquiries to the guest editors: Michele Chang <michele.f.chang(a)intel.com> and Irina Shklovski <irinas(a)cs.cmu.edu> --------------------------- Call for Articles for IEEE Computer Computer seeks articles for a special issue on public computing in city contexts, to appear in August 2006. Guest editors are Michele Chang from Intel and Irina Shklovski from Carnegie Mellon University. In recent years, forces of technology, culture, and society have converged to reshape urban life. The urban experience has quickly emerged as a major focus for research on issues of mobility, location-based services, and pervasive computing. A citys complexities, embodied in its social, historical, and technological infrastructures, make it a viable alternative to the controlled environment of the lab. Yet, as urban experience becomes an increasingly explored avenue for pervasive computing research and application design, there is the risk of approaching the city as a backdrop a site for exploratory activities that presumes a dense population of users without considering the more complex aspects of city life. This special issue will be devoted to bringing members of the human-computer interaction community together with researchers and practitioners from the fields of urban planning, architecture, and design to examine public interfaces and their effects on the urban environment. Public interfaces are systems that foster public dialog, facilitate the exchange of information and services, or encourage interaction between public entities and city inhabitants. Computer encourages submissions reporting systematic empirical studies or critical analyses of interdisciplinary research as well as descriptions of technology design and development. Topics of particular interest include computing as a shared resource, surveillance and personal boundaries in public spaces, access as a means of control and discrimination, and supporting individuals in the production of knowledge. The deadline for submitting papers is **15 February 2006**.

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IJEDICT - Issue 4 is already online
by Suely Fragoso 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

IJEDICT: Issue 4 Published ********************** Vol. 1, No. 4 (2005) of International Journal of Education and Development using ICT has now been published online at http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewissue.php?id=6 Editorial ---------------------------------------- Editorial: ICT for development in Asia and the Pacific Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies Wal Taylor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=138 Refereed Articles ---------------------------------------- Digital Cultural Communication: Enabling new media and co-creation in Asia Angelina Russo, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Jerry Watkins, Queensland University of Technology, Australia http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=107 Profiting from empowerment? Payal Arora, Columbia University, USA http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=74 The Information Society and the Digital Divide: some North-South comparisons Bill Martin, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Australia http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=128 What role can educational multimedia play in narrowing the digital divide? Hilary J Macleod, Queensland University of Technology, Australia http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=120 Learning Regions in New Zealand: The role of ICT Janet Toland, Victoria University of Wellington Pak Yoong, Victoria University of Wellington http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=134 Business undergraduates learning online: A one semester snapshot Krassie D.P. Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Rowena Sinclair, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=100 >From the Field ---------------------------------------- Towards a profitable and sustainable future for grain growers: A professional development model for farm partners Chris Murray, Apsilon, Toowoomba, Australia Jillian Anne Condell, Apsilon, Toowoomba, Australia Peter John Murray, University of Queensland, Australia http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=124 The usage of ICT for secondary education in Mongolia HTML Uyanga Sambuu, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar-46, Mongolia http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=140 ---------------------------------------- International Journal of Education and Development using ICT http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/ -- Professor Stewart Marshall Director Distance Education Centre UNESCO Chair in Distance Education The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, BARBADOS, West Indies phone: +1 246 417 4497 fax: +1 246 421 6753 Gmail: stewartmar(a)gmail.com url: http://www.dec.uwi.edu/smarshall Please view the open access e-journal on ICT in education and development at: http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu//index.php and the recently published books edited by Marshall, Taylor & Yu: "Closing the Digital Divide" http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=Q602 "Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions" http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?id=4146 "Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with ICT" http://www.idea-group.com/encyclopedia/details.asp?ID=4460 _______________________________________________________

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Panel Proposal
by bl506＠york.ac.uk 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

May I invite anyone interested in contributing to the following proposed panel to contact me please. Proposed Panel for aoir Conference 2006 Health Informatics for Older People This panel is designed to focus upon the convergence of digital technologies to facilitate health and social care practices for older people. In many parts of the world networked digital technologies are seen as an important means to both improve the delivery of clinical and educational services for older people and also to promote and enable independent care in the community and home setting. These could include electronic patient records (EPRs) designed to enable the sharing of information between practitioners and agencies; the use of interactive TV, Internet websites, help-lines to enable users to access information; electronic networks to provide easier on-line appointments booking; electronic messaging for reminders; the adoption of mobile technologies; and remote consultations and assessments through videoconferencing. Very often the key policy objectives informing the design and adoption of ICTs as they relate to the health and social care of older people include the following: § To both acknowledge the importance of older people (aged over 65) as major users of health and social services together with a recognition that existing health and social services are fragmented, provide poor services to older people and are unable to cope with the rising demands of this group; § To provide integrated services whereby health and social service professionals and organisations share user information; § To enable the independent care of older people, whenever possible, within their own homes and communities; § To provide a positive view of old age and include the service user and their carers in their assessment, diagnosis and care programmes; § To share appropriate and easy to use information with older people through a variety of communication means. Please contact me or better still send me an abstract of no more than 500 words if you are interested in joining us. Brian D. Loader Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Deparment of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email bl506(a)york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043

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CITSA 2006
by Homero Gil de Zuniga 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Some might be interested on this one HGZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- On behalf of the CITSA 2006 Organizing Committee, I would like to invite you to participate in the 3rd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications (http://www.info-cybernetics.org/citsa2006 ), which will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, from July 20-23, 2006. The best 10%-20% of the papers will be published in Volume 4 of JSCI Journal (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp) 12 issues of the volumes 1 and 2 of the Journal have been sent to about 200 university and research libraries, and 6 issues of Volume 3 (2005) will be sent to a larger number of library. Promotional, free subscriptions, for 2 years, are being considered for the organizations of the Journal's authors. We are emphasizing the area of Applications of Cybernetics and Informatics in other Scientific and Engineering Disciplines which is related to your specific area. Also, we would like to invite you to organize an invited session related to a topic of your research interest. If you are interested in organizing an invited session, please, fill the respective form provided in the conference web page, and we will send you a password, so you can include and modify papers in your invited session. Organizers of the invited sessions with the best performance will be co-editors of the proceeding volume where their sessions' papers were included and of the CD electronic proceedings. They will also be candidate for invited editors, or co-editors of a possible JSCI Journal issue related to their invited session papers. You can find information about the suggested steps to organize an invited session in the Call for Participation and in the conference web page. If you need a detailed Call for Participation, don't hesitate in asking us for it. You can also get it the conference's web site. If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let me know about a suitable time for you and I will inform you if it is feasible for us. Best regards, Professor José Aguilar CITSA 2006 General Chair

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ToC - Minority Languages, Multimedia and the Web
by Cunliffe D J (Comp) 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Minority Languages, Multimedia and the Web Special Issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Volume 11, Number 2 / December 2005 Guest-edited by Daniel Cunliffe and Susan Herring Abstracts available freely online: http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=j61m14138672 Introduction available freely online: http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=j433r01605759l51 Contents Introduction to Minority Languages, Multimedia and the Web pp. 131 - 137 Daniel Cunliffe and Susan C. Herring http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=j433r01605759l51 Digital libraries and minority languages pp. 139 - 155 David M. Nichols, Ian H. Witten, Te Taka Keegan, David Bainbridge, Michael Dewsnip Promoting minority-language use in a bilingual online community pp. 157 - 179 D. Cunliffe and R. Harries Immersion multimedia for adult Chiricahua language learners pp. 181 - 203 M. Kalish Resistance to globalization: Language and Internet diffusion patterns in Uzbekistan pp. 205 - 220 Carolyn Y. Wei and Beth E. Kolko Language-sensitive search behaviour and the role of domain knowledge pp. 221 - 246 A. Kralisch and B. Berendt Review of script displays of African languages by current software pp. 247 - 255 Quintin Gee Regards, Daniel Cunliffe

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Fwd: CFP: Internationalizing Internet Studies (1/31/06; collection)
by Tarleton Gillespie 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

'Internationalizing Internet Studies' Call for papers for a edited collection by Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney) & Mark McLelland (University of Wollongong) From the mid-1990s onwards, the Internet has shifted fundamentally from its co-ordinates in English-speaking countries, especially North America, to become an essential medium in a wide range of countries, cultures, and languages. According to October 2005 statistics, Chinese language now represents 14% of all Internet communication and media use, Spanish 9% and Japanese 9%. At 35% and falling, English use is now a minority in terms of overall online language use. However, communications and media scholarship, especially in the Anglophone world, has not registered the deep ramifications of this shift - and the challenges it poses to the concepts, methods, assumptions, and frameworks used to study the Internet. The vast body of Anglophone scholarship into 'the Internet' is predicated on research on and about English-language websites by academics and other researchers working and publishing in English. Despite the fact that there is also a large body of work being produced by scholars in non-English-speaking cultures and locales, hardly any of this work is being translated and it has had little impact on theorization of the developing fields of Internet and web studies. The purpose of this anthology, 'Internationalizing Internet Studies', is to acknowledge that Internet use and Internet studies take place 'elsewhere' in various national and international contexts. We seek to uncover how non-Anglophone uses of the Internet might challenge certain preconceived notions about the technology and its social impacts as well as the manner in which Internet studies is taken up, valued and taught outside the circuits of understanding prevalent in Anglophone academia. Through bringing together researchers whose daily experience of the Internet is mediated through non-Anglophone languages and cultures as well as researchers situated within the Anglophone academy whose work focuses on cultures outside North America and Europe, we hope to promote the visibility of work already being done outside the Anglophone world. We also aim to encourage new work that critically engages with Anglophone Internet scholarship that is based on research into diverse locales and draws upon a range of intellectual traditions. Accordingly, we wish to gather together a distinctive collection of contributors who can illuminate the key features of the Internet's internationalization, surveying exemplary Internet language groups and cultures. We hope to encourage explorations of the distinctive features of the consumption and use of the Internet by various language groups, and how this expands and questions taken-for-granted notions of Internet studies. We are also interested in contributions that reflect upon this cosmopolitan turn in the Internet, and what it signifies for our methods, tools, and concepts of Internet studies - and for media, communication, and cultural theory themselves. Here we are concerned with the debate - yet to emerge - on the internationalization of 'Internet studies'. Contributions would be welcomed, but are not restricted to, the following topics: * non-anglophone language communities use of the Internet * Asian countries and communities use of the Internet (especially Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) * mobility and the Internet: how the Internet is deployed by people on the move across borders * use of the Internet by diasporic communities * Internet use by minority language speakers in majority Anglophone and other language contexts * Indigenous use of the Internet * how particular Internet technologies (websites, peer-to-peer technologies, blogs, social software, mobile Internet) have been shaped and are used by different language and cultural groups * cell phone, mobile and wireless technologies and the internationalizing of the Internet * how does this change our understanding of Internet cultures and cultural histories? * what the implications of internationalizing of the Internet for debates concerning cultural citizenship and media diversity? (not least Internet governance, open source and commons debates) * what are the implications of increasing 'global governance' of the Internet for local and countercultural communities? * how is Internet studies responding to the internationalizing of the Internet - what new concepts, methods, locations and relationships does it need? Timeframe: Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to both editors outlining your proposed contribution to the edited collection by 31 January 2006. We will advise acceptance by 1 April 2006. We will be holding a workshop on 'Internationalizing Internet Studies' in Brisbane on 27 September 2006 immediately before the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference 7.0, and hope that we will be able to invite some contributors to attend and present drafts of their full papers. (We expect limited travel bursaries will be available for those attending from outside Australia). About the Editors: From January 2006, Dr Gerard Goggin (g.goggin(a)uq.edu.au) will be an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communication, the University of Sydney. He has published widely on Internet and new media, including Digital Disability (2003), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004) and Cell Phone Culture (forthcoming 2006). Dr Mark McLelland (m.mclelland(a)uq.edu.au) is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong. Recent Internet-related publications include Japanese Cybercultures (2003) and Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (2005).

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Call for Applications: Central European University, Media Policy
by Nanne Priebs 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Dear Colleagues, May I ask that you all utilize your own networks and contacts to promote and distribute the call for applications I am posting here widely? We would be very appreciative if you could help to introduce the program to students on your campus as well as hopefully encourage those interested in the MPP Media program to apply. BUDAPEST SEMESTER ABROAD and MA PROGRAM The Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) provides a semester program aimed primarily for US and European law students interested in media and communications policy. In the semester program (offered only in fall), students remain enrolled at their home institution but spend an exciting semester in Budapest, engaging in the Program in "Media, Information and Telecommunication Policy" which is part of CEU's Public Policy Program and taking selected courses (including courses on EU law) from the gifted CEU faculty. Students, after satisfying requirements, can receive up to 12 credits from their home institution. With a highly structured semester, combining coursework on media and communication law and policy topics and research opportunities at the CMCS, the program will appeal to law students seeking to gain a more international or comparative perspective on media. This program has been developed in connection with the University of Pennsylvania (Annenberg School for Communication) and students from the University of Pennsylvania, Tulane and Cardozo law schools have participated. Among the courses available in the semester abroad program are Fundamentals of Communications and Media Policy (4 credits), The Policy Process, Policy Analysis and Public Sector Management (4 credits), Politics, Law and Public Policy (4 credits) as well as classes from the Legal Studies Department such as International and Comparative Broadcasting Law (1 credit), Comparative Free Speech (2 credits). All courses at CEU are taught in English. In their courses, students work with graduate students from around the region and from Western Europe. They will be able to participate in many of the rich offerings and lectures at CEU and are encouraged to become actively involved in the projects hosted by the Center for Media and Communication Studies (see http://www.cmcs.ceu.hu:8080/cmcs/Projects/) The Fall 2006 semester abroad program runs from September through December 2006. Students can remain for the academic year and receive a Master's in Public Policy (http://www.ceu.hu/mpp/) Students can obtain the semester credit at home (with permission from their home institution) and the Master's degree from CEU within the one year span. You application package should include: - Completed application form (http://www.ceu.hu/downloads/non-degree_app.doc) - One letter of recommendation - Official transcripts from all universities attended - Evidence of English language proficiency if you are not a native speaker CEU (www.ceu.hu) is a US-style English language graduate university with a focus on the social sciences and the humanities, accredited both in the United States and in Hungary, and located in Budapest, in the heart of Europe. The university is oriented to interdisciplinary research on, and the study of social change and the policy implications of transition to open societies. In addition, emphasis is placed on European Union affairs, as well as on the special features of non-Western democracies. CMCS (www.cmcs.ceu.hu) aims to be the vehicle for conducting various international research and policy projects; researchers and experts affiliated with CMCS play an important role in shaping national research and development priorities in Eastern Europe. Budapest also provides a unique opportunity for graduate students to travel to regional historical spots such as Bratislava, Belgrade, Prague and Vienna. Please see our brochure at http://www.cmcs.ceu.hu:8080/cmcs/graduate_progs/CMCS_CEU%20Brochure.pdf . Deadline for the Fall semester 2006: March 1 2006. Applications received after the deadline are considered on a case-by-case basis. For more information about the semester abroad program, visit the CMCS website or contact the project manager Nanne Priebs at vispriebs(a)ceu.hu. Nanne Priebs Project Manager Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) Central European University Nador u. 9, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Fax: +(36-1) 235 6168 email: vispriebs(a)ceu.hu www.cmcs.ceu.hu

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CFP-CROSSROADS 2006-INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND VIRTUAL WORLDS
by Andrew Herman 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

PANEL: Intellectual Properties of Virtual Worlds Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Istanbul, 20-23 July 2006 Cultural commodities in the age of information capitalism are increasingly produced and circulated primarily as bits and bytes of digital code corporately owned under various regimes of intellectual property. The increasing value of cultural goods rests upon an ever-expansive regime of intellectual property rights -- embodied in copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and publicity rights * that enables the cultural industries to exploit the value of their intangible assets in an increasingly global marketplace. One of the most profitable intangible assets of the cultural industries are way may be termed "virtual worlds. " Such worlds are digitally constituted immersive social environments, such as massive multiplayer on-line games and other forms of simulation such as Google Earth, that are produced and sustained through distributed networks of collaboration. This panel will explore the ways in which the networked social relations of digitally mediated interactivity of such virtual worlds call into being distinctive forms of virtual property that transgress tradition boundaries between production and consumption, work and play, authorship and ownership, as well as real and virtual property, that challenge dominant forms and practices of intellectual property regimes in informational capitalism. Please send a 150 word abstract to the session organizers by February 1, 2006 to the session organizers: Andrew Herman, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA (aherman(a)wlu.ca) Rosemary J. Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies, York University, Toronto, CANADA (rcoombe(a)yorku.ca) Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693

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teens & blogs in the W. Post
by Holly Kruse 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

An article on teenagers and blogs in today's Washington Post includes insights from our own Steve Jones: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011601 489.html?nav=hcmodule Holly -- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication The University of Tulsa 600 S. College Ave. Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse(a)utulsa.edu

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CfP: AoIR 2006 Panel on Social Networks of Urban Residents
by Marcus Foth 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi I'm proposing the following panel for AoIR 7.0 in Brisbane. If you are interested to be a member of this panel, please send me an email with an abstract of your paper or presentation before 31st Jan 2006. Panels are given a 90 minute time slot and fit about 4 - 6 papers. The general AoIR CfP can be found at http://conferences.aoir.org/ callforpapers.php?cf=5 Best Regards Marcus Foth Challenges and Opportunities of Internet Technologies to Support Social Networks of Urban Residents Panel Proposal for AoIR 7.0 Brisbane Developers and governments around the world are struggling to achieve socially sustainable neighbourhood communities in master-planned residential developments. This panel will bring together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines to debate the challenges and opportunities of internet technologies to facilitate and support meaningful social interaction between residents in urban neighbourhoods. Focusing on the network qualities of social interaction in communities of place, the panel will discuss the panelists’ research findings that have the potential to inform the design of innovative new media and ICT systems for use in master- planned residential developments: peer-to-peer publishing, tools for vernacular creative expression, social networking applications, ambient technologies and locative media. Some of these studies are informed by urban sociology, ethnographic work, rapid prototyping, evaluation cycles, participatory design and sociocultural animation. Some of the key questions to be discussed include: What are the implications of networked individualism on internet technologies? How do urban residents connect with each other to create and maintain social networks and how can new media and ICT systems better support the interaction in those networks? How does private peer-to-peer interaction between urban residents differ from collective community interaction and what impacts does that have on new media and ICT design, social capital, local innovation and community efficacy? How can new media and ICT systems, devices and applications be designed to negotiate a balance between the opportunities of interactive services and locative media on the one side and issues of access, trust and privacy on the other? What is the role of locally relevant content (personal and community images and narratives) in the establishment and sustainability of meaningful social networks? How can new media and ICT systems be designed to inform social spaces for residents – private and public, and online and offline – towards facilitating social networking as well as civic engagement and local socio-economic innovation? Sustainability is pursued by working across community, business and government stakeholders to encourage social and economic innovation. The hypothesis to be tested by the panel is the claim that by careful attention to cultural and social assets in the community, innovations will be engendered which enhance economic and social development locally. This in turn will lead to greater social inclusion, fair access to and smart use of information and services, urban sustainability and healthier local economies. Understanding the opportunities afforded by digital augmentation of social networks will help urban residents negotiate the complex web of daily choices, access a greater social safety net and participate in the socio- cultural and socio-economic life of their neighbourhood and city. -- Marcus Foth MA(DigitalMedia) BCompSc(Hons) BMultimedia m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/ Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Mobile +61 407 745 021 - Fax +61 7 3864 3723 http://www.ici.qut.edu.au/

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