What is the difference between a "Roundtable" and an "Open Fishbowl?" Dag On 1/26/11 9:23 PM, "members-request@sigcis.org" <members-request@sigcis.org> wrote:
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1. Henry Tom (JHUP executive editor) passed away (Thomas J. Misa) 2. Re: Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 (IR-12) (John Paul Laprise)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:56:46 -0600 From: "Thomas J. Misa" <tmisa@umn.edu> To: sigcis <members@sigcis.org> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Henry Tom (JHUP executive editor) passed away Message-ID: <663789A6-D41C-43DC-9EE7-CD39B53B5503@umn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Some very sad news. Henry had just retired from JHUP, where -- in 36 years and 1,000 books -- he'd done much to create publishing opportunities in the history of technology and, indeed, to move a major press fully behind the developing field.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/news/index.html#henry_tom
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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:23:10 +0300 From: John Paul Laprise <j-laprise@northwestern.edu> To: "members@sigcis.org" <members@sigcis.org> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 (IR-12) Message-ID: <BFA6A3B65665864DA42236EDFB2E09D72AFFFD4A68@nuqmail1.qatar.northwestern.edu>
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I have attended a number of these and Tom?s points are well taken. It is a broad conference with a higher proportion of junior scholars than many other conferences (as one might expect in a newer field of inquiry). That said, it?s a very vibrant conference with lots of ideas being thrown around. Brilliant and not so brilliant. I?ve got to get out to one of these again soon.
John
From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Haigh Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:16 AM To: members@sigcis.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 (IR-12)
Below is the CFP for the Association of Internet Researchers. I haven?t been to one of these, though I almost did in 2009. The scope seems to be creeping beyond just the Internet and the composition is deliberately interdisciplinary, so proposals on video game history, etc. and things related to the conference theme of ?Performance and Participation? might be received with interest. Note that, unlike history conferences, they expect to receive full papers at some point.
Tom
From: sigtis-l-bounces@asis.org [mailto:sigtis-l-bounces@asis.org] On Behalf Of Karine Nahon Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:02 AM To: sigtis-l@asis.org Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 (IR-12)
Hello everyone,
Please distribute as appropriate.
I'm pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for next year's Internet Research conference. The website for the conference is: http://ir12.aoir.org . Follow us on twitter at @ir12.
Call for Papers Internet Research 12.0 ? Performance and Participation
The 12th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
October 10-13, 2011
Renaissance Hotel, Seattle
Seattle, Washington, USA
People perform identities, worry about economic performance, expect better performance from technologies, and feel pressure to perform as employees or in other roles in life. We observe or participate in artistic performances, ritual performances, and the performance of experiments. Join us in considerations, analyses, and celebrations of the many types of performance and participation online and in blended online/offline contexts. We look forward to creative articulations of the many meanings of the term performance and to the many ways of considering types of participation.
To this end, we call for papers, panel and pre-conference workshop proposals from any discipline, methodology, community or a combination of them that address the conference themes, including, but not limited to, papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following:
* Creative performances and digital arts
* Participatory culture and participatory design
* Critical performance and political participation
* Identity performance
* Exclusion from participation
* Economic performance of Internet-related industries
* Game performance
* Performance expectations (as workers, citizens, etc.)
* Ritual performances and communal participation
Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the Internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. We particularly invite proposals from scholars in the areas of digital arts and digital humanities.
SUBMISSIONS
We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. As in the past, we welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS, organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme, as well as PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS which focus on a particular topic. We also invite proposals that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates. A common form of this type is the ROUNDTABLE SESSION, but we would also like to encourage other formats, such as OPEN FISHBOWL SESSIONS. (See the Wikipedia entry under ?Fishbowl (conversation)? for a description of this format. Fishbowl sessions should cover broad topics of interest to a wide segment of the AoIR community.)
DEADLINES
Submissions Due: 1 March 2011 (Papers, Panels and Pre-Workshops. Details below)
Notification: 1 May 2011
Full Papers Submissions Due: 1 July 2011
NOTE: The submission deadline this year is later than in previous years, but for this reason, it is a HARD DEADLINE; there will be no extensions to this date.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All papers and presentations will be evaluated in a standard blind peer review.
Format:
* PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 600-800 words
* PANEL PROPOSALS - submit a description of 600-800 words on the panel theme, plus a 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation. The panel organizer must assemble these materials for submission,
* ROUNDTABLE and FISHBOWL PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of the discussion and form of interaction, and listing initial participants. (In the case of a fishbowl proposal, this will include the name of the moderator, and the names of the first four speakers for the fishbowl.)
* PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - please submit all workshop proposals via email to ir12chair@aoir.org<mailto:ir12chair@aoir.org>. Workshop proposals should include names of presenters, and a 1,000-word description.
Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each individual may present only one paper during the conference, though they may be listed as a co-author on multiple papers. In addition to this one presentation, they may also appear on a panel, roundtable, or performance.
PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
Full papers submitted by the 1 July 2011 deadline will undergo review to be published in an open-access, online collection, Papers of the Internet Research Conference (ISSN forthcoming).
Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society. Authors selected for submission for this issue will be contacted prior to the conference.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
On October 10, 2011, there will be a limited number of pre-conference workshops and symposia that will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These proposals and all inquiries regarding pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to both the Conference Chair and Program Chair and no later than Marc h 1, 2011.
CONTACT INFORMATION
* Program Chair: Lori Kendall, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, email: loriken(at)illinois(dot)edu
* Conference Chair: Karine Nahon, Information School, University of Washington, email: karineb(at)uw(dot)edu
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