Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community
Hello Alex! My name is Rafael Bienia and I am working on crowdfunding in the video game industry at Maastricht University (NL). I would like to join the discussion, but what are the practicalities of "sharing and staying in touch"? E-Mail, online platform, or ... ? Best wishes, Rafael PhD candidate Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Literature and Art Maastricht University Phone: +31-(0)43-3883452 Email: rafael.bienia@maastrichtuniversity.nl Staff page: http://www.fdcw.unimaas.nl/staff/bienia Game Studies resources: http://www.rafael-bienia.de Postal address: PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands Visiting Address: Room: 0.006, Grote Gracht 86, 6211 SZ Maastricht -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:24:22 +0000 From: Alexandra.Stiver <Alexandra.Stiver@open.ac.uk> To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <60667691F130CD418BD0D4FC512EF91217CBB6A631@SALCEYCMS1.open.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Dear colleagues, My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University (UK). We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as collaboration, networking, and feedback? We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with crowdfunding, and would be willing to share their stories and impressions with us: perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement with the community (online or offline) associated with the project, and specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We would be most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further. Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be willing to contribute, or for further information about the project. Many thanks! Alex -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:35:02 +0000 From: Filippo Trevisan <Filippo.Trevisan@glasgow.ac.uk> To: Alexandra.Stiver <Alexandra.Stiver@open.ac.uk> Cc: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <CE9EBFB0.2801%filippo.trevisan@glasgow.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Alex, Another useful network to put this question out to would be the e-campaigning forum practitioners list: http://fairsay.com/ecflist I imagine many on that list would be very interested in hearing more about your work and possibly collaborating. Filippo ------- Dr. Filippo Trevisan Post-doctoral Research Assistant Adam Smith Research Foundation University of Glasgow 66, Oakfield Avenue Glasgow ? G12 8LS United Kingdom email: filippo.trevisan@glasgow.ac.uk Web: www.filippotrevisan.net Download some of my papers here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1531633 On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver@open.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University (UK).
We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as collaboration, networking, and feedback?
We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with crowdfunding, and would be willing to share their stories and impressions with us: perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement with the community (online or offline) associated with the project, and specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We would be most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further.
Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be willing to contribute, or for further information about the project.
Many thanks!
Alex -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:12:52 -0500 From: Seda Gurses <seda@nyu.edu> To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <7DEE1C24-0FAB-44FF-A4BC-FB32D21F36B2@nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 hi alex, at the conference on online social networks[1] this year, there was a track on crowdsourcing, which had a number of quantitative studies on existing platforms. the first presentation was titled: Launch Hard or Go Home! Predicting the Success of Kickstarter Campaigns Vincent Etter (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Matthias Grossglauser (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Patrick Thiran (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) and may be of interest to you. best, s. [1] http://cosn.acm.org/program.html On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Filippo Trevisan <Filippo.Trevisan@glasgow.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Alex,
Another useful network to put this question out to would be the e-campaigning forum practitioners list: http://fairsay.com/ecflist
I imagine many on that list would be very interested in hearing more about your work and possibly collaborating.
Filippo
------- Dr. Filippo Trevisan Post-doctoral Research Assistant Adam Smith Research Foundation University of Glasgow 66, Oakfield Avenue Glasgow ? G12 8LS United Kingdom
email: filippo.trevisan@glasgow.ac.uk Web: www.filippotrevisan.net
Download some of my papers here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1531633
On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver@open.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University (UK).
We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as collaboration, networking, and feedback?
We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with crowdfunding, and would be willing to share their stories and impressions with us: perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement with the community (online or offline) associated with the project, and specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We would be most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further.
Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be willing to contribute, or for further information about the project.
Many thanks!
Alex -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:09:27 -0500 From: Rodrigo Davies <rodrigo.davies@gmail.com> To: Seda Gurses <seda@nyu.edu> Cc: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <CA+fB0RcP86enwUHx2Gne8XzikbquavP-RruDdL-WcPduEGp6yw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Alex, I've been looking at crowdfunding for the past year at MIT's Center for Civic Media. My interest is mostly in so-called 'civic' crowdfunding - the use of online platforms to raise money for projects that provide services to communities. I'm interested in questions of fairness/equity, geography and framing. I blog fairly regularly on the topic (rodrigodavies.com/blog) and am working on a couple of articles at the moment. I'd be glad to talk and hear more about your project. Likewise, I'd be glad to connect with other AIR folks who are working in this area. Best regards, Rodrigo -- Rodrigo Davies MIT Center for Civic Media @rodrigodavies | rodrigodavies.com/blog Find a time to talk: doodle.com/rodrigodavies On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Seda Gurses <seda@nyu.edu> wrote:
hi alex,
at the conference on online social networks[1] this year, there was a track on crowdsourcing, which had a number of quantitative studies on existing platforms. the first presentation was titled:
Launch Hard or Go Home! Predicting the Success of Kickstarter Campaigns Vincent Etter (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Matthias Grossglauser (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Patrick Thiran (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
and may be of interest to you. best, s.
[1] http://cosn.acm.org/program.html
On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Filippo Trevisan <Filippo.Trevisan@glasgow.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Alex,
Another useful network to put this question out to would be the e-campaigning forum practitioners list: http://fairsay.com/ecflist
I imagine many on that list would be very interested in hearing more about your work and possibly collaborating.
Filippo
------- Dr. Filippo Trevisan Post-doctoral Research Assistant Adam Smith Research Foundation University of Glasgow 66, Oakfield Avenue Glasgow ? G12 8LS United Kingdom
email: filippo.trevisan@glasgow.ac.uk Web: www.filippotrevisan.net
Download some of my papers here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1531633
On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver@open.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University (UK).
We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as collaboration, networking, and feedback?
We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with crowdfunding, and would be willing to share their stories and impressions with us: perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement with the community (online or offline) associated with the project, and specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We would be most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further.
Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be willing to contribute, or for further information about the project.
Many thanks!
Alex -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:15:09 -0800 From: "Daren Brabham" <brabham@usc.edu> Cc: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community Message-ID: <018201ceda42$3349bbd0$99dd3370$@usc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I would also point you to http://www.crowdsourcing.org/ to find some stuff on crowdfunding (and crowdsourcing). The site is an aggregator of sorts for anything that discusses these issues. There's not much of a filter, for better or worse, so just about any company or scholarly article that claims to be about crowdsourcing or crowdfunding ends up catalogued on the site. It may serve as a good starting point, though, for tracking down key studies, companies, or researchers on crowdfunding. As a crowdsourcing researcher, I haven't done much on crowdfunding (which I consider conceptually distinct!), but I'm working on a paper now about how the discourse on crowdfunding may affect public arts funding - get in touch in a few weeks and I can share a copy of it. Cheers, db --- Daren C. Brabham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism Editor, Case Studies in Strategic Communication | www.csscjournal.org University of Southern California 3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089 (213) 740-2007 office | (801) 633-4796 cell brabham@usc.edu | www.darenbrabham.com
On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver@open.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
My name is Alex Stiver and I?m a PhD researcher in the Centre for Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University (UK).
We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as collaboration, networking, and
feedback?
We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with crowdfunding, and would be willing to share their stories and
impressions with us:
perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement with the community (online or offline) associated with the project, and specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes. We would be most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further.
Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be willing to contribute, or for further information about the project.
Many thanks!
Alex -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:04:11 -0500 From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> To: Researchers <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Internet Society launches call for academic and scholarly papers on multistakeholder participation Message-ID: <CAM9VJk2tYHtvyrNtZM6bYfK4dBTS9cE8qDrbe3qOr9qRYZfnYQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Konstantinos Komaitis <komaitis@isoc.org> Date: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:10 AM Subject: Internet Society launches call for academic and scholarly papers on multistakeholder participation Dear all, in August 2013, the Internet Society launched a two-phased process on multistakeholder participation. Seeking public input on how Internet governance has evolved over the years, the first phase included a questionnaire on a range of issues including multistakeholder participation, enhanced cooperation and issues of balance and participation. In this first phase, the Internet Society received approximately 300 responses from more than 53 countries around the world. An initial report was produced with an analysis of the results -- the report can be found here: http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/bp-msfinalreport-20132010... At the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) symposium in Bali, the Internet Society launched the second phase of the project, which includes a call for research and scholarly papers on the issue of multistakeholder governance and participation. I would like to invite you all to consider submitting papers for this call. Please feel free to disseminate this to your respective networks and mailing lists. If you are affiliated with any university, please do also distribute accordingly. The call for papers can be found via http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/call-papers Please note that the deadline for the submission of abstracts is December 31, 2013. Many thanks and please do not hesitate to contact me should you require any further information. With best wishes Konstantinos Konstantinos Komaitis Policy Advisor, Internet Society komaitis@isoc.org tel: +41 22 807 1453 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:06:21 -0500 From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> To: Researchers <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] APRICOT 2014 call for papers is now open Message-ID: <CAM9VJk1KhZo+ikTrbvB01DD2kZFyhTraE=e-c_M=1jbGOBP-EQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) 18 - 28 February 2014, Bangkok, Thailand https://2014.apricot.net CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The APRICOT 2014 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for Presentations and Tutorials for APRICOT 2014. We are looking for presenters who would: - Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic; - Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker; - Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics. Please submit on-line at: http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=6 CONFERENCE MILESTONES --------------------- Call for Papers Opens: 1 November 2013 First Draft Programme Published: 6 December 2013 Final Deadline for Submissions: 7 February 2014 Final Programme Published: 14 February 2014 Final Slides Received: 21 February 2014 PROGRAMME MATERIAL ------------------ The APRICOT Programme is organised in three parts, including workshops, tutorials and the conference. Topics for tutorials and the conference must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies: - IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and operations - IPv6 deployment and transition technologies - Internet backbone operations - ISP and Carrier services - IXPs and Peering - Research on Internet Operations and Deployment - Thai Internet - Network security issues (NSP-SEC, DDoS, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware) - DNS / DNSSEC - Internet policy (Security, Regulation, Content Management, Addressing, etc) - Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, 3G/LTE, wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, MPLS - Content & Service Delivery (Multicast, Voice, Video, "telepresence", Gaming) and Cloud Computing CfP SUBMISSION -------------- Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be provided with CfP submissions otherwise the Programme Committee will be unable to review the submission. For work in progress, the most current information available at time of submission is acceptable. All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only. Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for publication on the APRICOT website. Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC will retain a limited number of slots up to the final submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely, important, or of critical operational importance. Please submit on-line at: http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=6 Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme Committee by e-mail at: pc-chairs at apricot.net We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals. Dean Pemberton, Mark Tinka & Philip Smith Co-Chairs, APRICOT Programme Committee pc-chairs@apricot.net -- -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 12:27:51 -0800 From: Joe Eckert <jeckert1@uw.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] AAG 2014 CFP, final call: ?Future Directions in Geoweb Research: an alt.conference on Big Data, Theory, and Geography?s Role." Message-ID: <CABM-zBm=pf6CQ1AdoU-d-+zsUD8m0yACsSG2n8WtP546QpnY3w@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 FINAL CALL, REAL-DEAL DEADLINE: Nov. 15, 2013 Apologies for cross posting. This is the final call for papers for the "Future Directions in Geoweb Research: an alt.conference on Big Data, Theory, and Geography's Role." This just in: this alt.conference is now sponsored by the GI Science and Systems, Urban Geography, and Communication specialty groups! We're also very excited by both the quality and quantity of responses so far. We're set to have a very robust series. We'd like to call attention to the unique format we are able to facilitate. We're encouraging submissions for short "lightning panels" that do not interfere with your ability to present more substantial papers at the AAG. The lightning talks are organized by theme and will then be discussed by panelists including Rob Kitchin, Nadine Schuurman, Matt Wilson, Matt Zook, Jeremy Crampton, Monica Stephens, Mark Graham, David O'Sullivan, Agnieszka Leszczynski, Renee Sieber, and others. The purpose of the alt.conference is to give an opportunity for younger scholars to receive immediate feedback and begin discussions with more senior researchers. Contributions will then be solicited for potential inclusion in an edited volume. Consider submitting a short talk and encouraging others to do so as well. Future Directions in Geoweb Research: an alt.conference on Big Data, Theory, and Geography's Role Call for Participants: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 8-12 April 2014 Tampa, FL USA Organizers (alphabetical by last name): Josef Eckert, University of Washington Andrew Shears, Mansfield University Jim Thatcher, Clark University Over the last two decades, widespread internet access integrated into daily life as a platform for information exchange, social networking, and commercial transactions. The expansive, rapidly changing data sets produced through these and other digital processes have come to be termed "Big Data." With an estimated 80% of these aggregated data sets containing spatial referent information, Geography as a discipline offers a "home field advantage" in the study of "Big Data" (Pozdnoukhov and Farmer 2012). The addition of "where" to information that records who is doing what, when, and with whom opens new avenues for knowledge and capital production (probably want a citation here). In the eyes of its boosters, the rapid aggregation and analysis of data destroys the need for social explanation as the numbers are able to "speak for themselves" (Anderson 2008). While Big Data and the Geoweb are oft heralded as a veritable gold mine for private industry and a tantalizing new source of data for social research, the rapid development of these technologies in the face of the often personal nature of the derived data is of concern. Studies of the geoweb call our attention to the ways in which user-generated data come into the world and are complicit in its unfolding. Scholars have voiced caution regarding the use of spatial big data, citing issues of accuracy (Liu et. al 2013), heterogenous data and sources, (Goodchild 2012), surveillance (Crampton 2013), shifting privacies (Elwood & Leczynszki 2011), capital investment (Wilson 2012), and urban experience (Thatcher 2013). In spite of this, urban planners (Torrens 2010), politicians (Morozov 2011), marketers (LeValle et al., 2011), and even national funding agencies (NSF 2012) are embracing the modeling of this data as a primary tool by which to understand society. This alt.conference will explore many of the broad implications of Big Data and the Geoweb and its study, including: - Big Data, the Geoweb, and the Critical GIS tradition - New methodologies for gathering and analyzing data - The epistemologies and ontologies of Big Data and the Geoweb - Big Data and the Geoweb as tools for education - Big Data and Geoweb for policy and spatial decision-making - Big Data and urban experience - Big Data and Geoweb as a tool for community planning - Amateur practitioners of Big Data analytics - Activist appropriation of Big Data platforms - Geographies of Big Data beyond GIS - Gendered Big Data - Big Data as Digital Humanities - Data mining vs. data exploration As well as other related topics. The alt.conference will feature a series of sessions of five-minute "lightning talks," each followed by panel and workshop sessions that link the themes discussed to theory and praxis. These sessions will run consecutively on the first day of the AAG conference, and will be capped by an evening networking gathering. Unlike the AAG"s traditional 15-minute papers, a lightning talk is an engaging five-minute presentation that quickly examines intensive subject matter by heavy use of simple but arresting graphics and visuals. The goal is to provide the audience with an entertaining way to absorb information on a number of topics. Traditionally, the presenter spends roughly a minute on each slide. Because these talks do not fit into the AAG"s traditional format, lightning talks do not preclude the presentation of a manuscript or poster elsewhere in the conference. In other words, a lightning talk does not preclude you from given a traditional talk elsewhere at the conference. Scholars interested in giving a lightning talk as part of the alt.conference are asked to submit an abstract or position paper of no longer than 500 words, plus any preliminary graphics, to ashears@mansfield.edu by November 15, 2013. Submissions are particularly encouraged from scholars early in their career, from disadvantaged populations and from the developing world. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 112, Issue 6 *************************************
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Bienia Rafael (LK)