From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sat Oct 5 15:50:28 2013 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 21:50:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sigtis-l] ACM MEDES'13: Call for participation - Luxembourg (28-31 oct. 2013) In-Reply-To: <24347655.3837604.1379471683098.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> <24347655.3837604.1379471683098.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <1833664661.8120815.1381002628214.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> ** Apologies for cross-postings. ** ** Kindly forward to interested colleagues and doctoral students.** =========================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =========================================================================== The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2013) Technically Sponsored by: ACM SIGAPP ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/13/ October 28-31, 2013 Abbey of Neumunster, Luxembourg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For registration and hotel reservations, please visit the conference web site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The MEDES addresses a large number of themes and issues including the following regular session topics: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Big Data - Services - Cloud Computing - Emergent Intelligence - Trust, Security & Privacy - Data & Knowledge Management - Web and Standards - Networks and Protocols -------- PROGRAM: -------- For full program details, please visit the conference web site at: http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/13/. Some of the highlights of the program include: (1) A half-day tutorial: From data to services: the creation of services from Open Data and Semantic data sets By Dr. Muriel Foulonneau, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Dr. Geraldine Vidou, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg (2) Keynote presentations from field leaders including; Explaining Recommendations in time-aware Location-based Social Networks Dr. Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ecosystem of CNRTA in Brazil Dr. Silvio A. Spinella, Information Technology Center Renato Archer, Brazil ------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS: ------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be published by the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in affiliated journals and special issues. Special tracks affiliated with MEDES 2013 include: * Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) * EU-Brazil innovation and Best Practice in IT Ecosystems * DEEP: experiences and perspectives of Digital Ecosystems European Projects ------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE : ------------------- General Chair ------------- Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Peter A. Bruck, Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria Antonio Montes, Centro de Tecnologia da Informacao Renato Archer, Brazil Program Chairs -------------- Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Local Organizing Chairs ------------------------------- Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ingrid Zantis, Zantis-Consulting, Luxembourg Jean-Paul Hengen, ICT Sector Development, Luxembourg International Program Committee: (see the web site for the full list) From apw06 at my.fsu.edu Wed Oct 9 11:11:37 2013 From: apw06 at my.fsu.edu (Adam Worrall) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:11:37 -0400 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Fwd: Berkman Center Accepting Fellowship Applications for the 2014-2015 Academic Year Message-ID: Harvard University?s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has posted an open call for fellowship applications for 2014-2015. Applications are due by December 8, 2013. More details below and at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/opencall20142015. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rebecca Tabasky Date: Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:11 PM Subject: [Air-L] Berkman Center Accepting Fellowship Applications for the 2014-2015 Academic Year To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Hello! The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has opened our yearly call for fellowship applications. This opportunity is for colleagues who wish to spend the 2014-2015 academic year in residence in Cambridge, MA as part of Berkman's community of pioneers, and who seek to deeply engage in the collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral exploration of some of the Internet's most interesting, challenging, and compelling issues. We invite applications from individuals from around the globe working on a broad range of opportunities and challenges related to Internet and society, which may overlap with ongoing work at Berkman or will expose us to new opportunities and approaches. We encourage applications from a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, innovators, artists, and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest. The application deadline is Sunday December 8, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, and applications will be **submitted online through our Application Tracker tool at: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/** apply/jobs/11?apptracker_id=3< https://cyber.law.harvard.**edu/apply/jobs/11?apptracker_**id=3 > More information about this call for applications may be found below and at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**getinvolved/fellowships/**opencall20142015< http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**getinvolved/fellowships/**opencall20142015 >. More information about the Berkman Center Fellowship Program may be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**getinvolved/fellowships< http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**getinvolved/fellowships >. A Fellowship Program FAQ may be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/** getinvolved/fellowships/faq< http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**getinvolved/fellowships/faq >. Through this annual open call, we seek to advance our collective work and give it new direction, and to deepen and broaden our networked community across backgrounds, disciplines, cultures, and nations. We welcome you to read more about the program below, to share this announcement with your networks, and to apply! With excitement, Becca --- ** Open Call for Fellowship Applications, Academic Year 2014-2015* < http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**getinvolved/fellowships/**opencall20142015 >* *About Berkman's Fellowship Program* "The Berkman Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit." Inspired by our mission statement, the Berkman Center's fellowship program provides the opportunity for some of the world's most innovative thinkers and changemakers to hone and share ideas, find camaraderie, and spawn new initiatives. The program aims to encourage and support fellows in an inviting and rigorous intellectual environment, with community activities designed to foster inquiry and to identify and expose the common threads across fellows' individual activities. Fellows actively participate in exchanges through a weekly fellows hour, fellows-run working groups, and a wide-range of Berkman Center events and interactions. While engaging in both substance and process, much of what makes the fellowship program rewarding is created each year by the fellows themselves to address their own interests and priorities. These entrepreneurial, collaborative ventures -- ranging from goal-oriented to experimental, from rigorous to humorous -- are what ensure the dynamism of the fellows, the fellowship program, and the Berkman community. Additionally, with Berkman faculty, students, staff, and other affiliates, fellows help to develop and advance their own work and Berkman Center projects, and they learn and teach through courses, skill sharing, hacking and development sessions, cultural productions, and other diverse gatherings. Fellows are essential to the Berkman Center as nodes of intelligence, insight, energy, and knowledge-sharing. From their diverse backgrounds and wide-ranging physical and virtual travels, Berkman Center fellows bring fresh ideas, skills, passion, and connections to the Center and its community, and from their time spent in Cambridge help build and extend new perspectives and initiatives out into the world.* About Berkman Fellowships* An appointment that defies one-size-fits-all description, each Berkman fellowship carries a unique set of opportunities, responsibilities and expectations. All fellows engage issues related to the fairly limitless expanse of Internet & society issues, and are committed to the intellectual life of the Center and fellowship program activities. Some fellows work as researchers directly on Berkman Center projects. Other fellowships consist of independent work, such as the research and writing of a manuscript or series of papers, the vision and planning of an action-oriented meeting, or the development and implementation of an initiative or a study on issues related to the Berkman Center's areas of inquiry. Fellowship terms typically run the course of the academic year, roughly from the beginning of September through the end of May. In some instances, fellows are re-appointed for consecutive fellowship terms. While we embrace our many virtual connections, spending time together in person remains essential. In order to maximize their engagement with the community, during their fellowship terms fellows are expected to routinely spend time in and conduct much of their work from Cambridge, in most cases requiring residency. Tuesdays hold particular importance as it is the day the fellows community meets for a weekly fellows hour, in addition to it being the day Berkman hosts our public luncheon series; as such, we ask that fellows commit to spending as many Tuesdays at the Center as is possible.* Qualifications* We do not have a defined set of requirements for the fellows we select through our open call; we welcome applications from a wildly diverse pool of individuals. Fellows come from across the disciplinary spectrum, different life paths, and are at all stages of career development. Some fellows are academics, whether students, post-docs or professors. Others come from outside academia, and include lawyers, philosophers, activists, technologists, entrepreneurs, journalists and other types of practitioners. The commonality among all Berkman fellows is an interest in the intersections of the Internet and related emergent technologies, social change, and policy and regulatory developments, and a commitment to spending their fellowship exploring those dynamics in concert with others. To learn more about the work and interests of our current community of fellows, you can read their bios > and find links to their outstanding work, check out their blogs < http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**planet/current/>, and find them on twitter >.* Commitment to Diversity* The work and well-being of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society are strengthened profoundly by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, experience, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and much more. We actively seek and welcome applications from people of color, women, the LGBTQIA community, and persons with disabilities, as well as applications from researchers and practitioners from across the spectrum of disciplines and methods. The roots of this deep commitment are many and, appropriately, diverse. We are not nearly far enough along in this regard, and we may never be. It is a constant process in which there remains much to learn. We welcome your inquiries, comments and ideas on how we may continue to improve.* Stipends, Benefits, and Access to University Resources */ Stipends/: Fellowships awarded through the open call for applications are rarely stipended. Some fellows receive partial stipends --the award of such a stipend is based on the nature of the responsibilities the applicant would assume while a fellow, and their relation, relevance, and application to Berkman's funded projects. Most fellows receive no direct funding or stipend through the Berkman Center, but rather have obtained funding through other means, such as an outside grant or award, a home institution, or other forms of scholarship./ Benefits/: Fringe benefits do not routinely accompany Berkman fellowships. Fellows must make their own housing, insurance, childcare, and transportation arrangements./ Office Space/: Most Berkman fellows work out of the greater-Boston area and spend a significant amount of time at the Berkman Center. There are many desks and workspaces available for flexible use at the Berkman Center, though few fellows are given their own permanent desk or office. We endeavor to provide comfortable and productive spaces for fellows to work, even if it is not the same space each day. Fellows are welcome to host small meetings and gatherings at the Center and on the Harvard campus./ Access to University Resources/: Fellows are allowed physical access into Langdell Library (the Harvard Law School Library), and fellows are able to acquire a Special Borrower Card > for privileges with the Harvard College Libraries. At present, we do not routinely provide remote access to the University's e-resources, however access is available within the libraries. Fellows do not have the ability to purchase University health insurance or get Harvard housing. Berkman fellows often audit classes at Harvard University, however must individually ask for permission directly from the professor of the desired class.* Additional Information about the Berkman Center* The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society. *Frequently Asked Questions* More information about fellows selection and the application process can be found on our Fellows Program FAQ >.* Required Application Materials* 1.) A current resume or CV. 2.) A personal statement which should a) frame your motivation for applying for a Berkman Center fellowship and b) outline the work you propose to conduct during a fellowship. This statement should be roughly 1,000 -- 1,500 words or should be a multi-media equivalent. 3.) A copy of a recent publication or an example of relevant work. For a written document, for instance, it should be on the order of a paper or chapter - not an entire book or dissertation - and should be in English. 4.) Two letters of recommendation, sent directly from the reference. In addition to the above materials, we will ask applicants to share some additional information in a form as part of the application. 1.) Disciplinary background: Up to three disciplines in which you have been trained and/or have worked. 2.) Tags: Five tags that describe or represent the themes, issues, or ideas you know about and on which you propose to conduct work during a fellowship at Berkman; and five tags that represent work, themes, issues, or ideas that you do not currently know much about, but would like to explore and learn more about during a fellowship year. Each tag should be one- to three- words or terms. 3.) Berkman projects of interest. * To Apply for a 2014-2015 Academic Year Fellowship Through Our Open Call* Applications will be submitted online through our Application Tracker tool at: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**apply/jobs/11?apptracker_id=3< https://cyber.law.harvard.**edu/apply/jobs/11?apptracker_**id=3 > Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Instructions for creating an account and submitting an application through the Application Tracker may be found here >. Note related to recommendation letters: Recommendation letters will be captured through the Application Tracker, and will require applicants to submit the names and contact information for references in advance of the application deadline. References will receive a link at which they can upload their letters. We recommend that applicants create their profiles and submit reference information in the Application Tracker as soon as they know they are going to apply and have identified their references - this step will not require other fellowship application materials to be submitted. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hrosenba at indiana.edu Wed Oct 16 23:19:16 2013 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:19:16 -0400 Subject: [Sigtis-l] ASIST '13> SIG-SI Symposium Final Schedule Message-ID: <57BD448E-4CEC-4CAA-AE3F-FC6959C09DFC@indiana.edu> Please join us in Montreal! The 9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Social Informatics of Information Boundaries Sponsored by SIG-SI, the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and SIG-HFIS Saturday, November 2, 2013, 8:00-12:30 PM Organizers: Howard Rosenbaum & Pnina Fichman (Indiana University) Schedule 8:00-8:10 Introduction Pnina Fichman - The (Information) Boundaries of Social Informatics 8:10-9:00 Keynote address: Dr. William Jones "Towards Places of Our Own for Digital Information: Constructing Roads and Walls on the Web" [[See below for abstract and information about Dr. Jones]] (University of Washington) 9:00-9:10 Break and Poster Session 9:10-10:30 Papers 9:10-9:30 Eric Meyer, Ralph Schroeder and Linnet Taylor - The boundaries of Big Data (Oxford Internet Institute) 9:30-9:50 Colin Rhinesmith - From Paper to the Cloud: The Social Informatics of Information Boundaries in Human Services (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 9:50-10:10 Adam Worrall (Florida State University) ?Back Onto The Tracks?: Convergent Community Boundaries in LibraryThing and Goodreads 10:10-10:30 Mohhamad Jarrahi - Social informatics and directions for future research on implication of ICTs in organizations (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 10:30-10:50 Break and Poster Session 10:50-11:50 Papers 10:50-11:10 Madelyn Sanfillipo - Government Information Access by Native Spanish Speakers: Social and Technical Barriers (Indiana University) 11:10-11:30 Matrix, Sydneyeve - Beyond Maps, News and Weather: Everyday Geomobile Media Use and the Changing Perceptions of Location Based Services (Queen?s University) 11:30-11:50 Natalia Grincheva - A Failure of Digital Diplomacy: Social, Cultural, and Information Boundaries in Online Cross-cultural Communication (Concordia University) 11:50-12:00 Networking break 12:00-12:30 Best paper awards and presentations with discussant 2012 Social Informatics Paper ($1,000): ? Toward an Integrated Model of Group Development: Disruption of Routines by Technology-Induced Change? by Monica Garfield and Alan Dennis 2012 Best Social Informatics Student Paper ($500): ?Knock knock, Whose?s there: The imagined audience? by Eden Litt Discussant: Noriko Hara, Indiana University Posters Shuheng Wu and Besiki Stvilia - Work Organization of a Sociotechnical System: The Case of Gene Ontology (Florida State University) Ingrid Erikson - The Borders and Boundaries of Coworking (Rutgers University) Fees: Members $95 - early registration ($110 after early registration ends) Non-members $105 - early registration ($120 after early registration ends) For more about the workshop, see http://www.asist.org/asist2013/seminars_workshops_SIG_SI.html. To register for the workshop (and the conference), see http://www.asist.org/asist2013/register.html For more about RKCSI, see http://rkcsi.indiana.edu About the keynote address "Towards Places of Our Own for Digital Information: Constructing Roads and Walls on the Web": Information can be personal in any of several senses: it might be "owned" by us, about us, directed towards us, shared by us with others, experienced by us or simply (potentially) relevant to us. As personal information moves onto the Web, old boundaries are removed even as new boundaries (and barriers) emerge. We can access information from anywhere at any time so that traditional boundaries between activities @home, @school and @work are blurred. Even within an area, activities blur as when people check email during a company meeting. Moreover, information about us that was once effectively hidden from the prying eyes of others, either because access was too difficult or because access attempts would reveal the identity of the "snooping" party, is now often easily "Googled" on the Web. On the other hand, new boundaries and barriers are emerging in the form of, for example, application "sandboxes." These "silos" provide a measure of security because information is meant to be accessed only via the owning application. However, this occurs at the cost of fragmenting information, already a serious problem of personal information management (PIM) on the desktop, that becomes much worse as this information moves onto the Web and into a myriad of devices. This talk will provide practical guidelines and considerations for the construction the useful boundaries ("walls") we need for our safety and sanity. Conversely, the talk will consider ways we might traverse (through "road" construction) other boundaries in order to realize a more effective cross-application, cross-device use of our information. About the speaker: Dr. William Jones is a Research Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington where he works on the challenges of "Keeping Found Things Found" (kftf.ischool.washington.edu). He has published in the areas of PIM, HCI, information retrieval and human cognition. He wrote the book "Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management" and, more recently, "The Future of Personal Information, Part 1: Our Information, Always & Forever" and "Part 2: Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information." "Part 3: Building a Better World With Our Information" is scheduled for publication in late spring of 2014. 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(Web page version of this e-mail: https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/sig-si-at-asist-2013/) - *Saturday Nov 2, 8am-12:30pm*: The *9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium*, featuring a keynote by William Jones of Indiana University, seven paper presentations by social informatics scholars, and the presentation of our 2013 Best Social Informatics Paper and Best Social Informatics Student Paper awards. Full schedule: http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/schedule-for-the-9th-annual-social-informatics-research-symposium/ - *Sunday Nov 3, noon*: *New Members / First Conference Brunch* - *Sunday Nov 3, 7pm*: *Welcome Reception / SIG RUSH* - *Monday Nov 4, 10:30am-noon*: Panel: *?Social Informatics: Now and Then?* with SIG SI officers Pnina Fichman (Indiana), Howard Rosenbaum (Indiana), Kristen Eschenfelder (Wisconsin-Madison), and Noriko Hara (Indiana), along with social informatics scholars Madelyn Sanfilippo (Indiana), Steve Sawyer (Syracuse), and Eric Meyer (Oxford). A decade after the passing of Rob Kling, these scholars will come together to discuss the past and current state of social informatics research. The panelists will provide an overview of the trajectory of social informatics from its emergence in Norway in the early 1980s to its current status as a scientific and intellectual movement uniquely positioned to investigate computerization and society. Full abstract: http://asist.org/asist2013/abstracts/panels/50.html - *Monday Nov 4, 12:30-1:30pm*: *SIG SI Business Meeting* in *Salon 4*. All are welcome to attend. We especially welcome those interested in discussing the future efforts of SIG SI and volunteers who are interested in serving in an officer position or other support positions in the SIG, contributing to our efforts in ASIS&T and beyond! Adam Worrall Communications Officer, ASIS&T SIG SI Doctoral Candidate, Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies College of Communication and Information - Florida's iSchool apw06 at my.fsu.edu adam at adamworrall.org http://www.adamworrall.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: