4th International Conference on e-Social Science
*** Apologies for cross-posting *** 4th International Conference on e-Social Science Manchester, June 18th-20th, 2008 Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading international representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure/ cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new research methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond. We invite contributions from members of the social science, e-Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities with experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new methods, practices, and tools afforded by new infrastructure technologies - such as the Grid and Web 2.0 - in order to further social science research; and 2) studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-Research. Submission categories include: full and short papers, posters, demos, workshops, tutorials and panels. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: * Case studies of the application of e-Social Science research methods to substantive social science problems * Advances in tools and techniques for quantitative and qualitative e-Social Science, including statistical analysis, simulation, data mining, text mining, social network analysis and collaborative environments * Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social Science, including ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal data *The e-Research technical roadmap, including grids, web 2.0 and their future (co-evolution) ------------------- Important Deadlines ------------------- Paper abstracts: January 25th, 2008. Workshop, tutorial and panel outlines: February 22nd, 2008. Poster and demo abstracts: March 21st, 2008. Submission instructions will appear on the conference web site in December. Authors will be informed of the programme committees decision in early March, 2008. For full details of this call, including a full list of topics of interest and submission instructions, please visit http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/call/
What will we see in 2020? The latest "Future of the Internet" survey sponsored by Pew Internet is available to participate in online for the next several weeks. It asks people to think about the impact generated through people's use of the tool we call the Internet. The survey presents interesting scenarios that are written to get people to react with their opinions about the future. There¹s no commitment involved you can take a few minutes to look at the survey site right now and then follow up by sharing your views if you'd like to do so. (Your answers will remain anonymous unless you specifically state you want to take credit for them.) If you think the survey is worthwhile, please also share the address with any of your friends who are knowledgeable about the Internet. The survey is located at: http://www.psra.com/experts If you have trouble with that address, try going to: http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/WSGateway?surveyid=195410 This is the third such survey. To see how the data is diffused, you can see results from the two earlier studies at the following address: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/default.xhtml Thanks very much for considering this. Best regards, Janna Anderson on behalf of the Pew Internet Project
I just took the survey and would encourage others too. Not just because this is is a worthy project, but many of the scenarios are interesting and thought provoking. Thanks, Janna for letting us know. ... Regards ... Richard On 1/15/08 4:20 PM, "Janna Anderson" <andersj@elon.edu> wrote:
What will we see in 2020?
The latest "Future of the Internet" survey sponsored by Pew Internet is available to participate in online for the next several weeks.
It asks people to think about the impact generated through people's use of the tool we call the Internet. The survey presents interesting scenarios that are written to get people to react with their opinions about the future. There¹s no commitment involved you can take a few minutes to look at the survey site right now and then follow up by sharing your views if you'd like to do so. (Your answers will remain anonymous unless you specifically state you want to take credit for them.)
If you think the survey is worthwhile, please also share the address with any of your friends who are knowledgeable about the Internet.
The survey is located at:
If you have trouble with that address, try going to:
http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/WSGateway?surveyid=195410
This is the third such survey. To see how the data is diffused, you can see results from the two earlier studies at the following address:
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/default.xhtml
Thanks very much for considering this.
Best regards, Janna Anderson on behalf of the Pew Internet Project
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participants (3)
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Hall, Richard H. -
Janna Anderson -
Yuwei Lin