Hello, My colleague Ylva and I are hoping to organize a panel at IR14 in Denver http://ir14.aoir.org on the use of social media for coping with grieving and bereavement. If you are interested in participating please send us your short paper. In order to put together the panel application we need your submission by 1 March, please email your work to us. We will then put together the panel and submit everything to the final deadline by 14 March. Here are the instructions SHORT PAPERS (individual or multi-author) – Minimum 1000 words, 1200 word maximum not including bibliography. Papers should include: - Description/summary of the work’s intellectual merit with respect to its findings, its relation to extant research and its broader impacts. - A description of the methodological approach or the theoretical underpinnings informing the research inquiry. - Conclusions or discussion of findings. - Bibliography of work cited. - Submissions must adhere to the template for the conference. http://ir14.aoir.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SPIR2013_template.doc Online instructions http://ir14.aoir.org/cfp/ We are also interested in gathering or joining a larger international network in this topic in order to carry out cross-cultural comparisons. Ylva Hård af Segerstad hardy@chalmers.se Mathias Klang klangm@chalmers.se -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Ph.D., Docent/Associate Professor University of Göteborg University of Borås Phone: +46 (0) 31 786 55 63 Mobile: +46 705 43 22 13 http://twitter.com/klang67 http://digital-rights.net http://creativecommons.se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~