[Asis-l] Last chance to register: DGI-Conference 2012 “Social Media & Web Science” + Twitter Workshop, March 21-23, Düsseldorf Germany.

[Katrin Weller]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


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DGI-CONFERENCE 2012 - EUROPEAN AFTERNOON
22 March 2012
SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB SCIENCE
The Web as a Living Space

Co-located with the 2nd DGI-Conference and 64. Annual Meeting
March 22 and 23, 2012

and with DIATA12 - Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches 
to Twitter Analysis, March 21, 2012
Düsseldorf/Germany
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View the complete conference programme at: 
http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=288&Itemid=122

Register here: 
http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=302&Itemid=129

Twitter hashtag: #dgi2012

We are happy to announce following keynotes:
* Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton & Web Science Trust): The 
Development of Web Science: Research, Education and Diversity
* Imogen Levy (Westminster Abbey): How Westminster Abbey created 
world-wide audience engagement around the royal wedding with online and 
social media.

Topical foci of the European Afternoon are:
* Social Media Platforms & Models
* E-Learning & Knowledge Distribution
* Politics 2.0

The upcoming DGI-Conference, hosted by the German Society of Information 
Science and Information Practice, will take place on March 22nd and 23rd 
in Düsseldorf, Germany. DGI-Conference continues the long tradition of 
annual meetings by the DGI, being held regularly since its foundation in 
1948. This time, the conference topic is “Social Media & Web Science”.
While the presentations of the main conference will be held in German, 
there is also a special research track in English language. This 
“European Afternoon” will take place on March 22nd. We would like to 
welcome researchers and practitioners interested in the social 
dimensions of Web developments and information technologies, e.g. from 
the fields of information science, library and documentation science, 
computer science, digital humanities, linguistics, psychology, political 
science, law and economics.

Previous to the main conference, the #DIATA12 workshop (Düsseldorf 
Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis) will be 
held on March 21st, 2012. There a no registration fees for #DIATA12, but 
a registration via email is required. Details can be found at 
http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/diata12.


PROGRAMME CHAIRS
Katrin Weller & Isabella Peters (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)

ORGANISER
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft
und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) /
German Society of Information Science and Information Practice
Windmühlstraße 3
60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Fon +49 (0)69 430313
Fax +49 (0)69 4909096
e-mail: mail at dgi-info.de
www.dgi-info.de

CONTACT
Nadja Strein


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Dr. Katrin Weller
Institute for Language and Information
Department of Information Science
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1, Building 23.21.04.68
D-40225 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 (0) 211 81 10803
E-Mail: weller at uni-duesseldorf.de

Events:
DGI-Conference "Social Media&  Web Science" (#dgi2012), Düsseldorf, March 22-23, 2012: http://tiny.cc/dgi2012-programme
Conference on Sciene and the Internet (#cosci12),Düsseldorf, August 1-3, 2012: http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/cosci12