From michel.menou at orange.fr Fri Dec 1 12:10:41 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:10:41 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] Fwd: [km4dev-l] Global Knowledge Index 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [km4dev-l] Global Knowledge Index 2017 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:18:14 GMT From: Mariam Itani Reply-To: KM4Dev To: KM4Dev Dear All, Though am not a frequent sender, but an active reader and follower, I am glad I finally got the opportunity to share with you our final product after a whole year of working on preparing the Global Knowledge Index 2017. Looking forward to receiving your feedback and further discussions, Mariam *Switzerland, Singapore and Finland Take the Lead in the Global Knowledge Index Ranking* // * /Announcing the results of the Global Knowledge Index (GKI) 2017 at the Knowledge Summit in Dubai/ * /The GKI is developed as a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme and Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation/ * /The GKI 2017 seeks to establish an objective tool to measure knowledge in the context of supporting the achievement of sustainable development around the world. The index includes in its first edition 131 countries / // Dubai, 26 November 2017 ? As part of the Knowledge Summit in Dubai, the Knowledge Project launched its first edition of the Global Knowledge Index (GKI 2017). The GKI 2017 is a unique initiative that focuses on knowledge as a comprehensive interdisciplinary concept related to all aspects of human life, including cultural, social and economic activities. It is also based on the belief that knowledge is a vital driver for achieving sustainable and comprehensive human development. According to the Index, Switzerland is the best-performing country in the world with a total score of 71.8 out of 100, followed by Singapore (69.5), Finland (68.5), Sweden (68.3), the Netherlands (68) and the United States of America (67.2), Luxembourg (66.2), United Kingdom (65.6), Denmark (65.2) and Norway (64.3). Other countries of notable performance include the Philippines ranking 4^th and Azerbaijan 11^th at the global level in the Technical Vocational Education and Training Index; and the UAE ranking 2^nd at the global level in the Economy Index. Mr. Michael O?Neill, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy, noted during presentation of the GKI that ?access to and availability of such data is important to design evidence-based policies that will be effective to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.? The GKI is a composite index structured around seven sectoral indices, namely Pre-University Education; Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET); Higher Education; Research, Development and Innovation (RDI); Information and Communication Technology (ICT); Economy; and General Enabling Environment. It brings together 133 variables from the most reliable and updated international data sources. It builds on the work of the Knowledge Project over the past ten years which led to remarkable results, including the Arab Knowledge Report, the Arab Knowledge and Reading indices, and the cutting-edge Knowledge4All e-portal and mobile application. The Global Knowledge Index is published by the Knowledge Project, a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF), supported by a core team of authors, and an advisory board with leading international experts in the areas related to the sectoral indices and knowledge. Advisory board includes: Ahmed ElSherbini from the ITU, Anuja Utz from the World Bank, Hugo Hollanders from the Innovation Systems Indicators and Policy program at Maastricht University, Jan Sturesson the founder of RESTING-Advice from the Future, Laurent Probst the leader of Research & Development activities Unit at PwC, Leif Edvinsson, Professor of Intellectual Capital at Lund University in Sweden, Milorad Kovacevic, Chief Statistician at HDRO-UNDP; Luis Serven from the World Bank; Jean-Louis Laville from CNAM; Ali Hadi from the American University in Cairo, Shyamal Majumdar from UNESCO-UNEVOC, and Sid-Ahmed Soussi from the University of Quebec in Montreal. Dr. Hany Torky, Chief Technical Advisor of the Knowledge Project, described this index as ?a major step in supporting sustainable development efforts with new innovative and helpful datasets and indicators, especially that it includes in its first edition 131 countries selected based on data availability.? On future plans, Torky said that ?the Project aspires to become a key reference in supporting policymakers and stakeholders in the area of knowledge-based development, and to include more countries in future editions?. Torky highlighted that ?One of the main findings of the GKI is that it statistically confirms the correlation between knowledge and development, which are interrelated and mutually influenced.? His Excellency Jamal bin Huwaireb, MBRF Chief Executive Officer, stressed that ?based on the results of the index, governments should invest in and promote knowledge which is key to their progress and development?. The Report is available in full for free download at the following links: Country Results: http://knowledge4all.com/uploads/files/KI2017/Country_Results_en.pdf Executive Report: http://knowledge4all.com/uploads/files/KI2017/Summary_en.pdf More information about the Index and the Knowledge Project, in addition to interactive country profiles can be found at: http://www.knowledge4all.com ** *-ENDS-* ---------- Mariam Itani *Researcher ? Arab Knowledge Project* *Phone*+961 1 981640 ext. 154 *Email*mariam.itani at undp.org Follow us on Twitter @KnowledgeIndex and Facebook at ArabKnowledgeProject KM4Dev is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches. Please check out our website: http://www.km4dev.org Please take a look at the KM4Dev Knowledge Base wiki, where we encourage you to summarize discussion threads: http://wiki.km4dev.org/Community_Knowledge Support the KM4Dev community with a donation: http://www.km4dev.org/page/funding You are receiving this message because you are a member of the community KM4Dev . View this contribution on the web site A reply to this message will be sent to all members of KM4Dev. Reply to sender | Unsubscribe Garanti sans virus. www.avg.com <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Mon Dec 4 09:11:20 2017 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:11:20 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] CFP. A Special Issue of Education For Information on Non-textual pedagogies: Learning beyond words In-Reply-To: References: <2aede113-d8a5-cf48-6770-e1e6eaedf531@univ-amu.fr> Message-ID: <857a853a-12bc-5ebf-3c5c-3030c25f5f64@univ-amu.fr> *CALL FOR PAPERS. A SPECIAL ISSUE OF /EDUCATION FOR INFORMATION/ ON* *Non-textual pedagogies: Learning beyond words* https://www.iospress.nl/journal/education-for-information/ In recent years, researchers and practitioners in the information and communication disciplineshave begun to recognize forms of knowledge that go beyond the textual. Concomitantly, new approaches and methodologies to pedagogy have emerged, such as embodied, arts-informed, design thinking, practice-led, experience-based and productive teaching and learning. As such, there is an opportunity to continue incorporating these developments into education for the information professions.Building on the 2016 special issue of /Education for Information/ on innovative pedagogies in LIS (volume 32, issue 1), we invite broad-ranging considerations of questions around educating future information professionals beyond the use of texts. With this in mind, /Education for Information/ is seeking articles for a special issue on Non-Textual Pedagogies to be published in fall/winter 2018. We welcome both conceptual and empirical papers (approximately 6,000 words) as well as shorter discussions of pedagogical innovations and applied practice (approximately 1,500 words). Submissions should be original works not previously published nor undergoing review for publication in another journal at the time of submission. The scope of this special issue includes: * Explorations of pedagogies that go beyond traditional textual and verbal approaches in information studies and other fields (including but not limited to embodied, arts-informed, design thinking, practice-led, experience-based, productive teaching and more) * Perspectives of teachers, learners, administration, staff, practitioners and more from anywhere in the world * Techniques and research on using modalities beyond the visual to teach information studies content * Theoretical and methodological approaches to pedagogy and curriculum design that are underrepresented in the information studies literature * Discussions of institutional support and student reception of such pedagogical approaches * Evidence of the effects of non-textual pedagogical approaches after graduation * Reflections on the impact and effectiveness of nontraditional pedagogies * Thoughtful use of new technologies for non-textual teaching and learning * Uses of ?old? technologies, both innovative and tried-and-true, for non-textual teaching and learning * Intersections between course content and other department/institution offerings (reading groups, research centers, seminar series, organizations, institutes and more) This special issue is co-edited by Kiersten F. Latham (Kent State University, USA) and Tim Gorichanaz (Drexel University, USA). Questions, comments and inquiries can be directed to either Kiersten (kflatham at kent.edu) or Tim (gorichanaz at drexel.edu). Style guidelines for Education for Information are available here: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/education-for-information/?tab=submission-of-manuscripts Submissions are due May 15, 2018. They can be submitted via email to either Kiersten (kflatham at kent.edu) or Tim (gorichanaz at drexel.edu . Submissions will be blind peer-reviewed. *About the journal*: Founded in 1983, /Education for information (EFI/) is a quarterly refereed//academic journal//publishing research articles on issues related to the teaching and learning of information scientists and professionals for an information society. EFI welcomes a broad perspective on issues related to pedagogy and learning in the information and communication disciplines (ICD) such as Library and Information Science, Communication and Media studies, Journalism, Archival studies, Museum studies, Psychology, Cognitive science and Digital Humanities. *Twitter*: https://twitter.com/EducationforIn1 *Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/educationforinformation/ Subscribe to the newsletter: http://madmimi.com/signups/290d73e84d1f4b8badb5030a3d10e86d/join -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) Aix-Marseille University - France. 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URL: From a.zuccala at hum.ku.dk Wed Dec 6 07:00:01 2017 From: a.zuccala at hum.ku.dk (Alesia Ann Zuccala) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 12:00:01 +0000 Subject: [Eurchap] CFP: Special Issue on Scholarly Books and Their Evaluation Context in the SSH Message-ID: Call for Papers: Special issue on Scholarly Books and Their Evaluation Context in the Social Sciences and Humanities (Aslib Journal of Information Management) This special issue, to be published in 2018, is guest edited by Alesia Zuccala (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Ginevra Peruginelli (ITTIG - Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques - National Research Council, Italy); Elea Gim?nez Toledo (CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, Spain). Schedule of dates and submission deadlines Paper submission: March 16, 2018 Notice of review results: May 20, 2018 Revisions due: June 20, 2018 Publication: Aslib Journal of Information Management, volume 70, issue 5, 2018 What is the focus of this special issue? The book has always been a key scholarly communication channel across the Social Sciences and Humanities. Modern studies in these fields are generally organized according to a range of theoretical, historical and normative disciplines, including economic theory, sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology, social psychology, theology, literary criticism and law. However, for decades, most scholarly books produced from these disciplines have been relegated to a peripheral, if not absent role in evaluation studies and procedures. It is only recently that positive changes are beginning to take effect. 2011 marks the year when Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomsen Reuters) officially announced its intention of "putting books back into the library" with the new Book Citation Index. This index, in addition to the Scopus index of books was originally seen as a new and improved opportunity to focus on the 'biblio' in bibliometrics. Exploratory research using both commercial databases, and other well-known book databases or indexes (e.g., Google Scholar, Google Books, Amazon, Goodreads, the WorldCat Union Catalog and ISBN databases) has thus been instrumental in highlighting the substantial value of books. Nevertheless, the 'value' of a book still tends to be inextricably linked to the prestige of a certain publisher as well as trends/changes within the publishing industry (e.g. open access; electronic publishing). Peer review is also fundamental to the assessment of a book's quality, and in some countries it is used almost exclusively as an evaluation tool. In light of this, bibliometrics could be one of the approaches used to counteract peer review's subjective and arbitrary aspects (e.g., bias or academic malpractice). In recent years we have seen an increase in research activity surrounding the book -- i.e., edited books, chapters, monographs, textbooks. Some of this new work is now connected to national book repositories in addition to commercial indexes, yet much of what we see in the literature points to issues concerning the fullness of data and/or metadata accuracy. It is a good time therefore to produce a special issue pertaining to scholarly books, whereby original datasets, methods, and measures might be used to push boundaries and generate new insights applicable to research and education policy. Potential topics under study include but are not limited to: * Conceptualizations and definitions of the academic book; including ?genres? considered in research assessments and differences between disciplines * The role of monograph authors and the author's original interpretation as purveyor of new knowledge * National registries of books and performance-based evaluation systems * Books and 'altmetrics' or alternative indicators of influence/impact/public visibility * Library holding counts and the perceived cultural benefit of books * The Academic publishing industry, including national and international markets, and connecting data from the publishing industry with research evaluation * The funding of academic publishing and its influence on quality * Publisher prestige and/or specialization * The commercial versus university press * Publisher rankings * Scholarly reputation of books in the digital age and the role of emerging platforms and mechanisms (e.g., e-books and new forms of electronic publishing). * Publication language - i.e., original language and translated books, and evaluation pressures towards internationalization * Commercial citation indices for books (i.e., Scopus; Book Citation Index) * The use of Google Scholar/Google Books for evaluating monographs * Bibliographic metadata and the classification of books for evaluation * The evaluative role of scholarly book reviews and book reviews in social media * Peer review standards and processes for monographs; edited books * Peer review labels for books * Open Access monographs; textbooks; edited books Submissions Papers should focus on books published for the Social Sciences and Humanities, both in terms of their scholarly role and role as change agents in society, and consider their treatment as study objects in national and/or international research evaluation contexts. All methodological approaches are welcome. Case studies and proof-of-concept studies should present new and unique findings and highlight future research possibilities and developments. Opinion pieces will not be considered for the special issue. Papers should be 4,000 to 9,000 words in length (including references) and in accordance with the journal?s author guidelines. Submissions to Aslib Journal of Information Management are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available here. Full information and guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available at the Emerald ScholarOne Manuscripts Support Centre. For all additional information prior to submission, please contact Alesia Zuccala (a.zuccala at hum.ku.dk). About the Journal Aslib Journal of Information Management (AJIM; previously: Aslib Proceedings, ISSN: 2050-3806) is a peer-reviewed international journal providing key insights into the latest international developments in the research and practice of information management and information science. Alesia Zuccala Associate Professor University of Copenhagen Building: 4A-2-67, S?ndre Campus, Bygn. 4, Njalsgade 76, 2300 K?benhavn S, Denmark Mobile# +45 25719286 a.zuccala at hum.ku.dk ?Inspiration exists but it has to find you working? ? Pablo Picasso [cid:03DF1520-31E1-4136-ABC1-11971E91854C at hum-iva.sc.ku.dk] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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They have experienced how the logic of the business school and neoliberal capitalism have colonised universities. This workshop marks the publication of the special issue "Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism" in the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at) (to be published in January 2018). We will hear presentations by experts who have contributed to the issue: guest editor Thomas Allmer (University of Stirling) as well as Karen Gregory (University of Edinburgh) and Jamie Woodcock (LSE). The workshop will be chaired by WIAS Director and tripleC co-editor Christian Fuchs. Today, universities are positioning themselves as active agents of global capital, transforming urban spaces into venues for capital accumulation and competing for international student populations for profit. Steep tuition fees are paid for precarious futures. Increasingly, we see that the value of academic labour is measured in capitalist terms and therefore subject to new forms of control, surveillance and productivity measures. Situated in this economic and political context, the new special issue of tripleC (edited by Thomas Allmer and Ergin Bulut) is a collection of critical contributions that examine universities, academic labour, digital media and capitalism. --- 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 Thu Dec 14 10:13:11 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:13:11 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] Fwd: [icts] Open access book: The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8e13f60d-9f08-d22d-e643-e60a37795bb1@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [icts] Open access book: The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:51:48 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Reply-To: christian.fuchs at uti.at To: icts at lists.riseup.net New open access book The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism, edited by Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano, University of Westminster Press "Critical Digital & Social Media Studies" book series (ed. C. Fuchs), Volume 5 Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord?s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour. It is argued that the Spectacle 2.0 form operates as the interactive network that links through one singular (but contradictory) language and various imaginaries, uniting diverse productive contexts such as logistics, finance, new media and urbanism. Spectacle 2.0 thus colonizes most spheres of social life by processes of commodification, exploitation and reification. Diverse contributors consider the topic within the book?s two main sections: Part I conceptualizes and historicizes the Spectacle in the context of informational capitalism; contributions in Part II offer empirical cases that historicise the Spectacle in relation to the present (and recent past) showing how a Spectacle 2.0 approach can illuminate and deconstruct specific aspects of contemporary social reality. All contributions included in this book rework the category of the Spectacle to present a stimulating compendium of theoretical critical literature in the fields of media and labour studies. In the era of the gig-economy, highly mediated content and President Trump, Debord?s concept is arguably more relevant than ever. https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book11/ https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-social-media-studies/ --- 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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Registration until 3 January: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/beyondcrisis/?page_id=259 Keynote talks: Daniel Williams (Swansea University): ?Raymond Williams, the Welsh and Other Differences? Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster, London): ?Raymond Williams? Communicative Materialism in the Age of Digital Capitalism? Udo G?ttlich (Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen): ?Raymond Williams? Sociology of Culture? Monika Seidl (University of Vienna): ??Moving? Images and How to Deal with Them? Gustav Klaus (Rostock University): "Raymond Williams, Public Intellectual of Working-Class Descent? --- 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 guillaume.cabanac at univ-tlse3.fr Sat Dec 16 11:51:08 2017 From: guillaume.cabanac at univ-tlse3.fr (Guillaume Cabanac) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 17:51:08 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] 2nd CfP: 7th Int. Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval @ECIR2018 Message-ID: <272F7581-0330-4C75-AB90-17578E1E14AD@univ-tlse3.fr> == Second Call for Papers == You are invited to participate in the upcoming 7th international workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2018), to be held as part of the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018). === Important Dates === - Submissions: 15 January 2018 - Notifications: 15 February 2018 - Camera Ready Contributions: 15 March 2018 - Workshop: 26 March 2018 in Grenoble, France The keynote will be given by Cyril Labb? (Universit? Grenoble Alpes). Title of the keynote talk: "Trends in Gaming Indicators: On Failed Attempts at Deception and their Computerised Detection" === Aim of the Workshop === In this 7th workshop we aim to engage with the IR community about possible links to bibliometrics and complex network theory which also explores networks of scholarly communication. Bibliometric techniques are not yet widely used to enhance retrieval processes, yet they offer value-added effects for users. Our interests include information retrieval, information seeking, science modelling, network analysis, and natural language processing. The goal is to apply insights from bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics to concrete practical problems of information retrieval and browsing. See proceedings of the former BIR workshops at ECIR 2014 , ECIR 2015 , ECIR 2016 , ECIR 2017 , JCDL 2016 and SIGIR 2017 . Retrieval evaluations have shown that simple text-based retrieval methods scale up well but do not progress. Traditional retrieval has reached a high level in terms of measures like precision and recall, but scientists and scholars still face challenges present since the early days of digital libraries: mismatches between search terms and indexing terms, overload from result sets that are too large and complex, and the drawbacks of text-based relevance rankings. Therefore we will focus on statistical modelling and corresponding visualizations of the evolving science system. Such analyses have revealed not only the fundamental laws of Bradford and Lotka, but also network structures and dynamic mechanisms in scientific production. Statistical models of scholarly activities are increasingly used to evaluate specialties, to forecast and discover research trends, and to shape science policy. Their use as tools in navigating scientific information in search systems is a promising but still relatively new development. We will explore how statistical modelling of scholarship can improve retrieval services for specific communities, as well as for large, cross-domain collections. Some of these techniques are already used in working systems but not well integrated in larger scholarly IR environments. The availability of new IR test collections that contain citation and bibliographic information like the iSearch collection or the ACL collection could deliver enough ground to interest (again) the IR community in these kind of bibliographic systems. The long-term research goal is to develop and evaluate new approaches based on informetrics and bibliometrics. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different domains, such as information retrieval, information seeking, science modelling, bibliometrics, scientometrics, network analysis, natural language processing, digital libraries, and approaches to visualize search and retrieval to move toward a deeper understanding of this research challenge. === Workshop Topics === To support the previously described goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - IR for digital libraries and scientific information portals - IR for scientific domains, e.g. social sciences, life sciences etc. - Information Seeking Behaviour - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Query expansion and relevance feedback approaches - Science Modelling (both formal and empirical) - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - (Long-term) Evaluation methods and test collection design - Collaborative information handling and information sharing - Classification, categorisation and clustering approaches - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) - Recommendations based on explicit and implicit user feedback - Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues - (Social) Book Search - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following Springer LNCS author guidelines (6 to 12 pages) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Springer LNCS: EasyChair: Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). == Program Committee == Iana Atanassova, CRIT, Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France Joeran Beel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Universit? - CNRS (LSIS), France Marc Bertin, Universit? Lyon 1, France Jose Borbinha, IST / INESC-ID, Portugal Cornelia Caragea, Kansas State University, USA Zeljko Carevic, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, National University of Singapore, Singapore Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany C. Lee Giles, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Bela Gipp, Universit?t Konstanz, Germany Gilles Hubert, University of Toulouse, France Peter Ingwersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Kokil Jaidka, University of Pennsylvania, USA Roman Kern, Know-Center GmbH, Germany Petr Knoth, The Open University, UK Marijn Koolen, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands Rob Koopman, OCLC, The Netherlands Cyril Labb?, Grenoble University, France Vincent Larivi?re, EBSI-UdeM, Canada Stasa Milojevic, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Peter Mutschke, GESIS ? Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Philipp Schaer, TH Cologne, Germany Andrea Scharnhorst, DANS-KNAW, The Netherlands Vivek Singh, Banaras Hindu University, India Henry Small, SciTech Strategies, USA Cassidy Sugimoto, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Lynda Tamine, University of Toulouse, France Ludovic Tanguy, University of Toulouse, France Simone Teufel, Cambridge University, UK Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer IPA-PAMB, Germany Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Haozhen Zhao, Navigant, USA === Program Chairs === Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire in Luton, UK Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France This cfp on Twitter , please retweet! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guillaume Cabanac https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac Universit? Toulouse 3 ? Paul Sabatier Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse ? IRIT UMR 5505 Institut Universitaire de Technologie ? IUT ? A ? ~~~~~~~~ ?If you find something interesting drop everything else and pursue it!? ? B.F. Skinner From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Mon Dec 18 04:04:45 2017 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:04:45 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] CFP. A Special Issue of Education For Information on Visual Learning In-Reply-To: <857a853a-12bc-5ebf-3c5c-3030c25f5f64@univ-amu.fr> References: <2aede113-d8a5-cf48-6770-e1e6eaedf531@univ-amu.fr> <857a853a-12bc-5ebf-3c5c-3030c25f5f64@univ-amu.fr> Message-ID: <6a555ff3-3746-e11f-1948-df44cfdaacbe@univ-amu.fr> *CALL FOR PAPERS. A SPECIAL ISSUE OF /EDUCATION FOR INFORMATION/ ON * *Visual Learning*** https://www.iospress.nl/journal/education-for-information/ The changing needs for innovative learning environments can be positioned as a consequence of complex societal issues subject of the professional and scientific domain of the information science. More and more students are coming from a variety of backgrounds and consequently the diversity in learning styles and learning experiences is growing and change the face of the classroom. The challenges of visual learning strategies in a context of complex and interdisciplinary education approach, are setting the need to have a better academic understanding of the potential of visual learning in relation to knowledge demands in the digital humanities age. Visual learning is grounded in the existence and relevance of information encapsulated in images. Visual learning is defined broader than a visual way of dealing with descriptive knowledge. Visual learning strategies provide opportunities for learning which are not possible with traditional written/printed support; they overcome physical limitations and provide specific tools for reflection and mediation. The current absence of expertise and understanding of designing and producing visual learning strategies and devices requires consideration for various disciplines involved. ?Visual could be defined in visual learning as a rich language that uses pictures or images of any type ? even mental pictures included ? that creates a look to the word, brings people and issues on stage, alters time, distance, places and spaces in a language that is metaphorical and narrative? (Witteven, 2009). The 2018 special issue of Education for Information on Visual Learning invites broad-ranging considerations of questions around Visual Learning. With this in mind, Education for Information is seeking articles for a special issue on Visual Learning to be published in winter 2018. We welcome both conceptual and empirical papers (approximately 6,000 words) as well as shorter discussions of visual learning and applied practice (approximately 1,500 words). Submissions should be original works neither previously published nor undergoing review for publication in another journal at the time of submission. The scope of this special issue includes: ?Education Theory and Practice in the Visual Age ?Visual Learning Transforming the Information Age ?Epistemological Approach of? Visual Learning ?Semantic and Linguistics Visual Learning Approach ?Linking Cultures & Languages through Visual Learning ?Semiotic as a Tool for Learning ?Visual Learning as a Mediation Tool for Learning ?Visual Learning for Social Sciences ?Visual Learning Analytics ?Visual Learning for Research Methods ?Visual Learning Strategies ?Models of Visual Learning ?Visual Learning Style and Techniques ?Learning Techniques for Visual Learners ?Multimedia Content Development for Visual Learning This special issue is co-edited by Audilio Gonzales (IMSIC Aix-Marseille University, France) and Francisco Carlos Paletta (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil). Questions, comments and inquiries can be directed to either Audilio (audilio.gonzales at gmail.com ) or Francisco (fcpaletta at usp.br ) Style Guidelines for Education for Information are available here: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/education-for-information/?tab=submission-of-manuscripts Submissions are due September 10, 2018. They can be submitted via email to either Audilio (audilio.gonzales at gmail.com ) or Francisco (fcpaletta at usp.br ). Submissions will be blind peer-reviewed. ***About the journal* Founded in 1983, Education for information (EFI) is a quarterly refereed academic journal publishing research articles on issues related to the teaching and learning of information scientists and professionals for an information society. EFI welcomes a broad perspective on issues related to pedagogy and learning in the information and communication disciplines (ICD) such as Library and Information Science, Communication and Media studies, Journalism, Archival studies, Museum studies, Psychology, Cognitive science and Digital Humanities. > *Twitter*: https://twitter.com/EducationforIn1 *Facebook*: > https://www.facebook.com/educationforinformation/ Subscribe to the > newsletter: > http://madmimi.com/signups/290d73e84d1f4b8badb5030a3d10e86d/join -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) Aix-Marseille University - France. 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The academic "Middle Class" fared much better than the economic Middle Class did in the US in 2010 (which is notable for its inequality, in Piketty's analysis). However, the academic "Lower Class" struggled much more than its economic analogues. See the full analysis here: http://www.sciencemetrics.org/prestige-inequality-in-ivory-tower/?utm_source=ASISTEuro Hopefully these findings can inform our ongoing reflections about the structure of our research institutions, just as findings about income and wealth inequality prompt us to reflect on our economic and governmental institutions. 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POEM is a consortium of high profile universities, acknowledged memory institutions, civil society organizations, and SMEs located in Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the UK. Two of the PhD projects are placed at the Department of ALM, Uppsala University and after a completed education, successful doctoral candidates will be awarded a PhD degree in Information Studies. More information about the call and projects at http://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de and in the attached call. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The official job posting is available in German only at https://www.th-koeln.de/hochschule/wissenschaftlicher-mitarbeiterin-fim-promotionsprojekt-der-einfluss-von-suchmaschinen-auf-die-politische-meinung_50578.php? *** Research assistant in PhD project? Application deadline: 19.01.2018 - Reader Service Code: 0302W/17? At the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences at the Technical University of Cologne, Institute for Information Science at the S?dstadt Campus, we are currently looking for a research assistant in the PhD project "The influence of search engines on political opinion" (29.8725 hours per week) for a limited period of 3.5 years. A doctorate with a cooperating university is planned.? YOUR TASKS? You will be responsible for independent research and development in the ESUPOL project. Together with the political scientists at the University of Cologne, you will explore the influence of search engines on political opinion-forming, e. g. by examining search behavior and the influence of search suggestions on users. They are responsible for the collection, processing and analysis of web data and carry out laboratory and online experiments. In addition, you will teach within a maximum of 3 SWS. As part of your research work, you will be involved in the information science research of Prof. Schaer's research group at the Cologne University of Technology (TH K?ln) and cooperate closely with a doctoral partner from Prof. Proksch's research group (University of Cologne). In addition, you will participate in the activities of the NRW Research Training Group "Digital Society".? YOUR PROFILE? - You have successfully completed a Master's degree in computer science, information sciences or a comparable subject.? - You have proven experience in software development, e. g. with Java or Python.? - Ideally, you have knowledge of text mining, topic modelling or statistical text classifications.? - You have preferably experience working with test persons, e. g. in usability laboratories.? - You are proficient in English at a very good level.? - You have an independent and analytical working style.? - You enjoy working in a team and are interested in applied information science research.? More details are available on the website or upon personal request. Feel free to contact me! All the best Philipp Schaer -- Prof. Dr. Philipp Schaer Institute of Information Science Managing Director of the Institute of Information Management Technische Hochschule K?ln (University of Applied Sciences) Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer 54, 50968 K?ln, Germany Visit me at Campus S?dstadt, Claudiusstr. 1, Room B5.420? Tel: + 49 221 / 8275-3845 https://ir.web.th-koeln.de