From dpotnis at utk.edu Sun Jan 7 21:07:26 2018 From: dpotnis at utk.edu (Potnis, Devendra Dilip) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 02:07:26 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Call for Papers (ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest) (Due: April 15, 2018) Message-ID: *** Apologies for Cross-Postings *** Dear All, The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) invites research papers for the 18th International Paper Contest (IPC) for library and information science (LIS) professionals in developing countries, for the 2018 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from November 9, 2018. The theme of the Annual Meeting is: ?Building an Ethical and Sustainable Information Future with Emerging Technologies.? For more information visit: https://www.asist.org/am18/. Papers submitted to the International Paper Contest can discuss research problems, policies, practical issues in or outside of LIS work settings, and case studies on any aspect of the 2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting theme from a local and/or international perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to the following core areas: ? Information and individuals: Information behavior, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, social media use, information literacy, etc. ? Information use in, for, or by organizations: Information architecture, knowledge management, competitive intelligence, linked data and big data, digital curation, records and archives management, etc. ? Information society: Digital citizenship, cultural engagement, archival preservation, policy development, copyright, intellectual property, infometrics, information access, etc. ? Information and emerging technologies: Cloud computing, digital libraries, automatic indexing, social tagging, classification, semantic web, database design, web usability, etc. ? Application of information in different contexts: Health, education, law; environment, agriculture, business, etc. Judging Criteria: The IPC papers will be judged using the following criteria. 1. Originality of the research question 2. Ability to situate problem statement against existing literature 3. Rigor in research methods 4. Novelty and significance of research findings 5. Theoretical and/or practical implications and/or contributions 6. Quality of presentation and overall organization of information 7. Consistency in citations, references, and grammar Eligibility & Information for Authors: Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners of the 2011-2017 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and submitted in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. Style: The IPC Committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=ulbr20&page=instructions#.VOw5ZUex4k0 ASIS&T Copyright Policy: ASIS&T will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its website or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5,000 words, by April 15, 2018 via email to dpotnis at utk.edu as Microsoft Word attachment. Notification: Winners will be notified by May 31, 2018. Winners and Award: The IPC Committee will select three winners. We encourage all three winners to attend the 2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting for sharing their research. The first-place winner will receive a minimum of $1,500 for offsetting the cost of attending and presenting their research poster at the 2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. In addition, all three winners will receive a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In case of multiple authors, the first author will be awarded the ASIS&T membership. Poster Presentation: The first-place winner will be expected to present a poster (48? by 36? inches) based on their research paper at the SIG-III Reception at the 2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please feel free to distribute this call for papers widely to your colleagues in developing countries. Thanks! Sincerely, International Paper Contest Committee Team Devendra Potnis (Chair) Ina Fouri Shima Moradi Saira Soroya Nosheen Warraich Shivanthi Weerasinghe _____________________________________ Devendra Potnis, PhD Associate Professor School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee at Knoxville Office: +1-865-974-2148 https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Mon Jan 8 11:57:29 2018 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 17:57:29 +0100 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] Information science book on Qatar's Way Towards Knowledge Society In-Reply-To: <193db0a8-4633-8529-ab6b-8cdf79ff950e@phil.hhu.de> References: <193db0a8-4633-8529-ab6b-8cdf79ff950e@phil.hhu.de> Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Asis-l] Information science book on Qatar's Way Towards Knowledge Society Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 14:32:13 +0100 From: Wolfgang G. Stock To: asis-l at asis.org Transitioning Towards a Knowledge Society. Qatar as a Case Study This is the first book to cover an understanding of an Arab oil state?s way into becoming a knowledge society. It discusses Qatar as a paradigm for other states encountering this knowledge society shift and concisely analyzes programs to configure knowledge society and ? in contrast to the programs ? the reality of the way into knowledge society. The book offers a critical evaluation of Qatar?s path from oil- and gas-based industries to a knowledge-based economy. This book gives basic information about the region and the country, including the geographic and demographic data, the culture, the politics and the economy, the health care conditions and the education system. It introduces the concepts of knowledge society and knowledge-based development and adds factual details about Qatar by interpreting indicators of the development status. Subsequently, the research methods that underlie the study are described, which offers information on the eGovernment study analyzing the government-citizen relationship, higher education institutions and systems, its students and the students? way into the labor market. This book has an audience with economists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, information scientists and other researchers on the knowledge society, but also all researchers and practitioners interested in the Arab Oil States and their future. Transitioning Towards a Knowledge Society. Qatar as a Case Study. By Julia Gremm, Julia Barth, Kaja J. Fietkiewicz,and Wolfgang G. Stock. Springer Nature, 2018. xvii, 244 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-71194-2 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-3-319-71195-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71195-9 The authors Wolfgang G. Stock is full professor and head of the Information Science Dept. of Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf, Germany. His research areas include studies on smart cities, social network services and information behavior. He is author of more than 300 articles and books, thereof about 30 are on prototypical cities of the emerging knowledge society. Kaja J. Fietkiewicz is research associate at Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf. She is working on social media, e-government and on smart cities, especially in Japan. Julia Barth and Julia Gremm have been assistant lecturers for Smart City Research at Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf. They conducted field researches on cities in the Gulf Region (especially, in Kuwait, Qatar, U.A.E. and Oman) and published articles on the ?Arabian Way? into knowledge society. Link to Springer https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-71195-9#toc ________________________________________ ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting Crystal City, VA Oct. 27th - Nov. 1, 2017 Diversity of Engagement: Connecting People and Information in the Physical and Virtual Worlds ________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l --- Cet email a fait l'objet d'une analyse antivirus par AVG. http://www.avg.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Jan 9 11:48:31 2018 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:48:31 +0100 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Fwd: [tripleC] 2018 CALL FOR OPEN ACCESS BOOK PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES In-Reply-To: <20180108183006.323CB19466D4@dd33424.kasserver.com> References: <20180108183006.323CB19466D4@dd33424.kasserver.com> Message-ID: <6fbc9418-22c2-2aa7-42fe-fba2dd085518@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [tripleC] 2018 CALL FOR OPEN ACCESS BOOK PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:32:53 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs To: Michel J. Menou Dear tripleC-Readers, **NEW 2018 CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES** Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is an established book series edited by Professor Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions of book proposals that fall into the scope of the series. **Submission Deadline: Monday 12 February 2017 23:00 BST** by e-mail to Andrew Lockett (University of Westminster Press Manager) at A.Lockett at westminster.ac.uk For fullest series details and proposal guidelines see https://uwestminsterpress.blog/2018/01/08/call-for-book-proposal-submissions-2018-critical-digital-and-social-media-studies-series/ Books already published in the Series: https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-social-media-studies/ University of Westminster Press Publishing Portfolio: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ubiquity-partner-network/uwp/UWP_Catalogue.pdf CALL DETAILS After the publication of five titles in the series we invite submission of book proposals (adhering to the guidelines set out below) as one document with one full chapter for books in the range of 35,000-80,000 words. The books in the series are published online in an open access format available online without payment using a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) and simultaneously as affordable paperbacks. We are able to publish a number of books in the call without any book processing charges thanks to generous support by the University of Westminster that covers these fees. Potential authors are welcome to contact the series editor outside of the initial time frame of this call for book proposals but should note that priority for funding support for suitable projects will be given to those proposals meeting the deadline. There is a preference for the submission of proposals for books whose writing can be finished and that can be submitted to UWP within the next 6-15 months. In the event of a surplus of strong proposals preference will be given to single-authored book proposals over edited volumes. We welcome submissions of a book outline proposal with (exactly one) sample chapter submitted as one single Word or PDF document. We can only accept suggestions for books written in English. TOPICS Example topics that the book series is interested in include: the political economy of digital and social media; digital and informational capitalism; digital labour; ideology critique in the age of social media; new developments of critical theory in the age of digital and social media; critical studies of advertising and consumer culture online; critical social media research methods; critical digital and social media ethics; working class struggles in the age of social media; the relationship of class, gender and race in the context of digital and social media; the critical analysis of the implications of big data, cloud computing, digital positivism, the Internet of things, predictive online analytics, the sharing economy, location- based data and mobile media, etc.; the role of classical critical theories for studying digital and social media; alternative social media and Internet platforms; the public sphere in the age of digital media; the critical study of the Internet economy; critical perspectives on digital democracy; critical case studies of online prosumption; public service digital and social media; commons-based digital and social media; subjectivity, consciousness, affects, worldviews and moral values in the age of digital and social media; digital art and culture in the context of critical theory; environmental and ecological aspects of digital capitalism and digital consumer culture. -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Co-Editor of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique University of Westminster, Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) & of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) christian.fuchs at triple-c.at @fuchschristian _______________ tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | http://www.triple-c.at --- Cet email a fait l'objet d'une analyse antivirus par AVG. http://www.avg.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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