Held in conjunction with OZCHI 2008 on Friday, 12th Dec 2008, 3pm at James Cook University, Cairns, please join us for afternoon tea where Associate Professor Bharat Dave (The University of Melbourne) will launch the latest release from IGI Global: Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City Edited by: Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. ISBN 978-1-60566-152-0. 506 pp. http://www.urbaninformatics.net/book/ Please register at ozchi.org. Event info: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=93201635054 DESCRIPTION Alive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of exchange facilitated by a meshwork of infrastructure connections. In this environment, the Internet has advanced to become the prime communication medium, creating a vibrant and increasingly researched field of study in urban informatics. The Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City brings together an international selection of 66 esteemed scholars presenting their research and development on urban technology, digital cities, locative media, and mobile and wireless applications. A truly global resource, this one- of-a-kind reference collection contains significant and timely research covering a diverse range of current issues in the urban informatics field, making it an essential addition to technology and social science collections in academic libraries that will benefit scholars and practitioners in an array of fields ranging from computer science to urban studies. TOPICS COVERED Community engagement Digital cities Digital identity Environmental impact Locative media Mobile and wireless applications Participatory planning Privacy Surveillance Sustainability Urban informatics Urban technology Abstracts, foreword, preface, acknowledgements and contributors' biographies can be downloaded from: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00013308/ If you are interested in this book, please ask your library to place an order with their preferred distributor using this form: http://www.igi-global.com/downloads/pdf/LibRecForm_booksEnc.pdf If you are on facebook, please join the Urban Informatics group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2493830797 Best Regards, marcus -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/