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Disasters, Activism, Refugees, Bullying, Autism, Sexuality, Fertility, Climate, Methodology & More
by Shulman, Stu 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

Periodic scans of Google Scholar remind me why we built and continue to fight hard, despite headwinds, to preserve DiscoverText as an option for scholars not likely to ever become fluent in Python or R. Below are some of the 2020 DiscoverText mentions. We provide free project consultation and insights into legal & ethical issues when you store and later display Twitter data. If you are new to text classification, text mining, Twitter research methodology, or wish to try something new, this is the way. Please sign up for a 15 or 30 minute session: https://calendly.com/discovertext Congrats to all the authors of these important recent works: Use of Social Media to Seek and Provide Help in Hurricanes Florence and Michael https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/3/4/59 (open access) #notokay: challenging sexual violence through digital health activism https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09581596.2020.1776218 Digital Feminism and Affective Splintering: South Korean Twitter Discourse on 500 Yemeni Refugees https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/14322 Seeing and Responding: How Students Perceive School Personnel to Fail to Respond to Bullying https://www.qualitativecriminology.com/pub/v8i2p1/release/2 Communicating Autism on the Internet The Emerging of Neurodiversity Movement in Indonesia https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/82188 The Perception of LGBTQ Influencers on Social Media https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10427/ Political hashtag publics and counter-visuality: a case study of #fertilityday in Italy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1555271 “I can’t believe #Ziggy #Stardust died”: Stance, fan identities and multimodality in reactions to the death of David Bowie on Instagram https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/prag.18061.mat?TRACK=… Standing out in a networked communication context: Toward a network contingency model of public attention https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444820939445 Contesting Legitimacy: Protest and the Politics of Signification in Post-Revolutionary Egypt https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/26771 Turf wars: Using social media network analysis to examine the suspected astroturfing campaign for the Adani Carmichael Coal mine on Twitter https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pa.2057 AI, Public Service and Research Methodology https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-54084-5_3 Hot weather, hot topic. Polarization and sceptical framing in the climate debate on Twitter https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1834600 Image-based Social Media and Visual Content Analysis: Insights from a Literature Review https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1431/98621 Saving social media data: Understanding data management practices among social media researchers and their implications for archives https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asi.24368 Political narrating in non-political crises: narrativity practices on Persian Twitter during the 2017 Kermanshah earthquake https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01292986.2020.1817112 Microlevel Movements Matter: Persuasion, Identity Performance, Performative Agency, And Resistance In Egypt On Twitter During The Egyptian Arab Spring https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/3068/ Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788977142/9781788977142.00041.x… Zika Outbreak of 2016: Insights from Twitter https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-49576-3_32 Students’ Reasons for Why They Were Targeted for In-School Victimization and Bullying https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42380-019-00017-7 Data privacy and political distrust: corporate ‘pro liars,’ ‘gridlocked Congress,’ and the Twitter issue public around the US privacy legislation https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1850839 Claims-Making and Transnational Spaces: Contesting the Scope of Climate Change Discourse on Twitter https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-52044-1_8 Intraday Intermedia Agenda-Setting in the Manic World of Online News Reporting https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1041794X.2020.1797147 Status and Expertise in the Structuring of Reciprocal Exchanges on Twitter: Replies, Retweets, and Mentions During National Diabetes Awareness Month https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15098 The Data loop of media and audience: How audiences and media actors make datafication work https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/121178 Online Political Communication Research Methods https://content.sciendo.com/configurable/contentpage/journals$002fpce$002f1… -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*

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12 Streams 2020 2 – Hacking Web Servers to Make Them More Secure and Faster Using Open Standards – DanYork
by Joly MacFie 27 Dec '20

27 Dec '20

Of all the projects in ISOC's 2020 Action Plan, Open Standards Everywhere is perhaps the most unsung, however is one that has been quietly effective, and this talk in fact had the most views of any ISOC presentation this year, apart from Robin Wilton's Quantum Encryption at the same event. For you tl;dr types the transcript is already in the archive, and a big thanks to Monica Fast for her assist on that. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday December 27 2020, at 7:00pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the second installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature Dan York, Director, Web Strategy & Project Lead, Open Standards Everywhere, I" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-2>Today, *Tuesday December 27 2020*, at *7:00pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the second installment of the* Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ 2020 highlights, we feature Dan York <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/york/>, Director, Web Strategy & Project Lead, Open Standards Everywhere, Internet Society giving a presentation '*Hacking Web Servers to Make Them More Secure and Faster Using Open Standards <https://scheduler.hope.net/hope2020/talk/GCCGSY>*' on July 28 2020 at the *Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) Conference <https://isoc.live/12526/>*. In his talk Dan delves into how the Internet Society implemented open standards, including TLS, IPv6, HTTP/2, IPv6, TLS, HSTS, and DNSSEC, on its multiple websites, and in doing so, spawned a program to provide *the recipes <https://bit.ly/osegithub>* so that others can do likewise. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-2 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-2>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> #openstandardseverywhere #ose #hopeconf @DanYork @InternetSociety* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *ORIGINAL STREAM* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/hope2020/videos/209190736 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/hope2020/videos/209190736>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-2 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-2>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13265/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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12 Streams 2020 #1 - Connecting Indigenous Communities: Examples and Lessons Learned - Dr. Hosein Badram @ NANOG 78
by Joly MacFie 26 Dec '20

26 Dec '20

Off to a bit of a late start today on the first of this year's 12 streams. But you have good corrected captions! These should be going out at 7pm EST the rest of the joyous period. One of the few streams before lockdown, this was a simulcast of the NANOG 76 live feed, with our own Hosein Badran giving an update on North America;s indigenous projects. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday December 26 2020, at 7:30pm EST (00:30 UTC) in the first installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature Dr. Hosein Badran, Regional Technical Advisor – North America, Internet Society " [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-1>Today, *Tuesday December 26 2020*, at *7:30pm EST* (00:30 UTC) in the first installment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=12+streams>*‘ annual highlights, we feature Dr. Hosein Badran, Regional Technical Advisor – North America, Internet Society giving a presentation '*Connecting Indigenous Communities: Examples and Lessons Learned*' on February 11 2020 at NANOG 78 in San Francisco. He covered the recent successful deployment of a private LTE network in the community of *Pu’uhonua o Waimanalo <https://bit.ly/3hiCMCB>* in Hawaii, as well as an upcoming deployment in the Northern Canadian community of *Uluhokhtak <https://bit.ly/3mR4uaz>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-1 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-1>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS #indigenous #nanog78 @isoc_na #communitynetworks* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-1 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-1>* *ORIGINAL STREAMS* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety/hosein <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/hosein>* *https://youtu.be/OpNFXGz8_Tk <https://youtu.be/OpNFXGz8_Tk>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13254/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Job Opening | Tenure Track | Data, Media and Society | iSchool | University of South Carolina
by Ehsan Mohammadi 24 Dec '20

24 Dec '20

Hi All, Our iSchool at the University of South Carolina is growing. We’re currently hiring a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Data, Media and Society at the intersection of race and ethnicity. Please see the job advertisement here: https://uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/92380 Let me know if you have any questions All the best, Ehsan Mohammadi Assistant Professor College of Information and Communications University of South Carolina Webpage: https://bit.ly/3bKLhTT G.S: https://tinyurl.com/s63gls8

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New Issue (Vol 16) of the Journal of Community Informatics
by Colin Rhinesmith 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Dear colleagues, The new issue of the Journal of Community Informatics is now online. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v16i0 <https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v16i0> Editorial A legacy to continue Colin Rhinesmith Articles Actionable Open Data: Connecting City Data to Local Actions Lucia Lupi, Alessio Antonini, Anna De Liddo, and Enrico Motta Refugees and social media in a digital society: How young refugees are using social media and the capabilities it offers in their lives in Norway Sasha Anderson and Marguerite Daniel ICT Framework to Support a Patient-Centric approach in Public Healthcare: A Case Study of Malawi Richard Pankomera and Darelle van Greunen Bridging Digital Divide in a Remote Elementary School: A Teacher's Reflection on Invisible Work Kenzen Chen An analysis of the policies of Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture in Mali Macire Kante and Patrick Ndayizigamiye Digital Justice: Reflections on a Community-Based Research Project Suguna Chundur Notes from the field Lessons from the field: What researchers learned from evaluating ICT platforms for rural development and education Thato Emmanuel Foko, Nare Joyce Mahwai, and Charles Acheson Phiri The Journal of Community Informatics is sponsored by the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science (iSchool) and is hosted at the University of Waterloo Library. Cheers, Colin — Colin Rhinesmith (pronouns: he/him) Associate Professor and Director Community Informatics Lab iSchool @ Simmons University phone: 617-521-2881 web: https://crhinesmith.com Editor-In-Chief Journal of Community Informatics https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/index

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Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India
by Geert Lovink 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Sarai in Delhi and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam) are excited to announce the publication of Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India <https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/lives-of-data-essays-on-comput…>. "This remarkable collection is the first major portrait and assessment of the social and technical relationalities that constitute the ecology of big data in India today. Equally remarkably, the authors represent the first generation of scholars of digital media who speak through an Indian lens while being totally conversant with the cutting edge of global scholarship on big data.’ — Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University "Wide-ranging and incisive, Lives of Data is essential reading for those who wish to understand the seductions and contingencies of being or becoming data-driven." — Lisa Gitelman, author, Paper Knowledge and editor, ‘Raw Data’ Is an Oxymoron Lives of Data maps the historical and emergent dynamics of big data, computing, and society in India. Data infrastructures are now more global than ever before. In much of the world, new sociotechnical possibilities of big data and artificial intelligence are unfolding under the long shadows cast by infra/structural inequalities, colonialism, modernization, and national sovereignty. This book offers critical vantage points for looking at big data and its shadows, as they play out in uneven encounters of machinic and cultural relationalities of data in India’s socio-politically disparate and diverse contexts. Lives of Data emerged from research projects and workshops at the Sarai programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. It is edited by Sandeep Mertia, PhD candidate at New York University and former Research Associate, Sarai-CSDS. It brings together fifteen interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to set up a collaborative research agenda on computational cultures. The essays offer wide-ranging analyses of media and techno-scientific trajectories of data analytics, disruptive formations of digital economy, and the grounded practices of data-driven governance in India.Encompassing history, anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), media studies, civic technology, data science, digital humanities, and journalism, the essays open up possibilities for a truly situated global and sociotechnically specific understanding of the many lives of data. Download the book as pdf or e-pub, or by a print on demand copy via Lulu (more news soon about print on demand services in India as well as the Delhi book launch). https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/lives-of-data-essays-on-comput…

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IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) - Deadline extension
by Axel Soto 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

Fourth IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) https://sites.google.com/view/esida2021/home 13 April 2021, Virtual Important Dates (submission deadline extended): Submission deadline: January 6, 2020 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 31, 2021 Final manuscript due: February 15, 2021 Workshop: April 13, 2021 Workshop Description: This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2021 Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2021/) The workshop focuses on systems that personalize, summarize and visualize the data for supporting interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating the user needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1) propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead to speciﬁc (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data analytics; (3) develop a common set of design principles for this type of systems across platforms, contexts, users and applications; (4) develop a set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search: Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics: – personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search. – cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems. – interactively modelling the user’s information needs for high-recall information retrieval. – new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. Data analytics: – interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms. – interaction degrees of freedom. – preprocessing vs. online processing. – interactive data visualization evaluation of interactive systems for exploratory search and data analytics. Metrics for explainable intelligent systems: – metrics for explainable exploratory search. – explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems. – human-in-the-loop analytics systems. – efﬁcient vs. explainable analytics. – user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive intelligent systems. Organisers: Dorota Glowacka, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland), glowacka[at]cs.heelsinki.fi Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), eem[at]cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina), axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), paulovich[at]dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile) , dparra[at]ing.puc.cl Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il Submission Information: We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: -full papers (up to 8 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will presented either as contributed talks or posters -extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida21

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Karl Popper and a science fiction story
by Paul Levinson 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

Two new publications just up this morning that may be of interest: "Karl Popper and Evolution Through the Decades" - short piece on Karl Popper and me https://ourkarlpopper.net/2020/12/22/paullevinson/ "Foreseeable" - brand new science fiction story in debut of a brand new journal Academ*fic* http://press.palni.org/ojs/index.php/academfic/article/view/654 Enjoy! -Paul *Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time * - digital <https://open.spotify.com/album/4S1oaV75qF6tRFfdDwDczE>, CD <http://paullev.com/product/welcome-up-songs-of-space-and-time-cd/>, vinyl <https://lightintheattic.net/releases/6371-welcome-up-songs-of-space-and-time> "Eight slices of interstellar delight" -- Jon Pruett, *Ugly Things Magazine*, September 2020 <https://www.reverbnation.com/page_object/join_mailing_list/artist_86705>

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CFP: 2021 Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Conference - on the iLRN 3D Virtual Campus (IEEE Tech. Co-Sponsored)
by Lee, Mark 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS iLRN 2021: 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network May 17 to June 10, 2021, on iLRN Virtual Campus, powered by Virbela ... and across the Metaverse! Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, with proceedings to be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore(r) Conference theme: "TRANSCEND: Accelerating Learner Engagement in XR across Time, Place, and Imagination" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference website: https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2021/ PDF version of this CFP available at: https://bit.ly/3qnFYRu The 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2021) will be an innovative and interactive virtual gathering for a strengthening global network of researchers and practitioners collaborating to develop the scientific, technical, and applied potential of immersive learning. It is the premier scholarly event focusing on advances in the use of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and other extended reality (XR) technologies to support learners across the full span of learning--from K-12 through higher education to work-based, informal, and lifelong learning contexts. Following the success of iLRN 2020, our first fully online and in-VR conference, this year's conference will once again be based on the iLRN Virtual Campus, powered by VirBELA, but with a range of activities taking place on various other XR simulation, gaming, and other platforms. Scholars and professionals working from informal and formal education settings as well as those representing diverse industry sectors are invited to participate in the conference, where they may share their research findings, experiences, and insights; network and establish partnerships to envision and shape the future of XR and immersive technologies for learning; and contribute to the emerging scholarly knowledge base on how these technologies can be used to create experiences that educate, engage, and excite learners. Note: Last year's iLRN conference drew over 3,600 attendees from across the globe, making the scheduling of sessions a challenge. This year's conference activities will be spread over a four-week period so as to give attendees more opportunities to participate at times that are conducive to their local time zones. ##### TOPIC AREAS ##### XR and immersive learning in/for: Serious Games • 3D Collaboration • eSports • AI & Machine Learning • Robotics • Digital Twins • Embodied Pedagogical Agents • Medical & Healthcare Education • Workforce & Industry • Cultural Heritage • Language Learning • K-12 STEM • Higher Ed & Workforce STEM • Museums & Libraries • Informal Learning • Community & Civic Engagement • Special Education • Geosciences • Data Visualization and Analytics • Assessment & Evaluation ##### SUBMISSION STREAMS & CATEGORIES ##### ACADEMIC STREAM (Refereed paper published in proceedings): - Full (6-8 pages) paper for oral presentation - Short paper (4-5 pages) for oral presentation - Work-in-progress paper (2-3 pages) for poster presentation - Doctoral colloquium paper (2-3 pages) PRACTITIONER STREAM (Refereed paper published in proceedings): - Oral presentation - Poster presentation - Guided virtual adventures - Immersive learning project showcase NONTRADITIONAL SESSION STREAM (1-2 page extended abstract describing session published in proceedings): - Workshop - Special session - Panel session ##### SESSION TYPES & SESSION FORMATS ##### - Oral Presentation: Pre-recorded video + 60-minute live in-world discussion with others presenting on similar/related topics (groupings of presenters into sessions determined by Program Committee) - Poster Presentation: Live poster session in 3D virtual exhibition hall; pre-recorded video optional - Doctoral Colloquium: 60-minute live in-world discussion with other doctoral researchers; pre-recorded video optional - Guided Virtual Adventures: 60-minute small-group guided tours of to various social and collaborative XR/immersive environments and platforms - Immersive Learning Project Showcase: WebXR space to assemble a collection of virtual artifacts, accessible to attendees throughout the conference - Workshop: 1- or 2-hour live hands-on session - Special Session: 30- or 60-minute live interactive session held in world; may optionally be linked to one or more papers - Panel Session: 60-minute live in-world discussion with a self-formed group of 3-5 panelists (including a lead panelist who serves as a moderator) Please see the conference website for templates and guidelines. ##### PROGRAM TRACKS ##### Papers and proposals may be submitted to one of 10 program tracks, the first nine of which correspond to the iLRN Houses of application, and the tenth of which is intended for papers making knowledge contributions to the learning sciences, computer science, and/or game studies that are not linked to any particular application area: Track 1. Assessment and Evaluation (A&E) Track 2. Early Childhood Development & Learning (ECDL) Track 3. Galleries, Libraries, Archives, & Museums (GLAM) Track 4. Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, & Social Justice (IDEAS) Track 5. K-12 STEM Education Track 6. Language, Culture, & Heritage (LCH) Track 7. Medical & Healthcare Education (MHE) Track 8. Nature & Environmental Sciences (NES) Track 9. Workforce Development & Industry Training (WDIT) Track 10. Basic Research and Theory in Immersive Learning (not linked to any particular application area) ##### PAPER/PROPOSAL SUBMISSION & REVIEW ##### Papers for the Academic Stream and extended-abstract proposals for the Nontraditional Session Stream must be prepared in standard IEEE double-column US Letter format using Microsoft Word or LaTeX, and will be accepted only via the online submission system, accessible via the conference website (from which guidelines and templates are also available). Proposals for the Practitioner Stream are to be submitted via an online form, also accessible from the conference website. A blind peer-review process will be used to evaluate all submissions. ##### IMPORTANT DATES ##### - Main round submission deadline - all submission types welcome: 2021-01-15 - Notification of review outcomes from main submission round: 2021-04-01 - Late round submission deadline - Work-in-progress papers, practitioner presentations, and nontraditional sessions only: 2021-04-08 - Camera-ready papers for proceedings due - Full and short papers: 2021-04-15 - Presenter registration deadline - Full and short papers (also deadline for early-bird registration rates): 2021-04-15 - Notification of review outcomes from late submission round: 2021-04-19 - Camera-ready work-in-progress papers and nontraditional session extended abstracts for proceedings due; final practitioner abstracts for conference program due: 2021-05-03 - Presenter registration deadline - Work-in-progress papers, practitioner presentations, and nontraditional sessions: 2021-05-03 - Deadline for uploading presentation materials (videos, slides for oral presentations, posters for poster presentations): 2021-05-10 - Conference opening: 2021-05-17 - Conference closing: 2021-06-10 *Full and short papers can only be submitted in the main round. ##### PUBLICATION & INDEXING ##### All accepted and registered papers in the Academic Stream that are presented at iLRN 2021 and all extended abstracts describing the Nontraditional Sessions presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore(r) digital library. Content loaded into Xplore is made available by IEEE to its abstracting and indexing partners, including Elsevier (Scopus, EiCompendex), Clarivate Analytics (CPCI--part of Web of Science) and others, for potential inclusion in their respective databases. In addition, the authors of selected papers may be invited to submit revised and expanded versions of their papers for possible publication in the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (2019 JCR Impact Factor: 2.714), the Journal of Universal Computer Science (2019 JCR Impact Factor: 0.91), or another Scopus and/or Web of Science-indexed journal, subject to the relevant journal's regular editorial and peer-review policies and procedures. ##### CONTACT ##### Inquiries regarding the iLRN 2020 conference should be directed to the Conference Secretariat at conference(a)immersivelrn.org. General inquiries about iLRN may be sent to info(a)immersivelrn.org. 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[Dec. 18] Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism: Harbin Hot Springs (S. MacLeod)
by Scott MacLeod 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

Greetings, AoIR, Traci, All, I'm glad to announce I'll be giving a UC Berkeley Anthropology talk - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2020 - this Friday at 4pm Pacific Time, open to all via Skype. The Realistic Virtual Earth I'll be talking about is for collaborative ethnography in the digital age. Here's a Tweet about this: Glad to be giving a UC BERKELEY TSWG Anthropology talk Fr 12/18/2020 "Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study" http://tourismstudies.org @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth ~ https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1337375378495557632?s=20 And check out the first 3 media items here: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus… & 1st on #SmartPhone: #TSWG Announce: http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2020.htm ( http://www.tourismstudies.org/People.htm#SM) https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1338236794588950528?s=20 Friendly regards, Scott Scott GK MacLeod President, CEO, Founder, Professor worlduniversityandschool.org scottmacleod.com https://twitter.com/scottmacleod Best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch - worlduniversityandschool.org https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod The WUaS Press / Corp and WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html https://twitter.com/WUaSPress https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 countries each a major online MIT OCW-centric university in countries' official / main languages - and offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees from home). https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planned in 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning) WUaS academic and creative open wiki subjects, planned in all 7117 languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects -- -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - 415 480 4577 - http://scottmacleod.com - CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This transmission and any attachments are intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable federal or state laws. If the reader of this transmission is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately by email or telephone. World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you.

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