From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Sun May 3 17:28:31 2015 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 23:28:31 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] [Asis-l] Call for I-Stories: SIG History and Foundations of Information Science In-Reply-To: <55292D77.7080201@univ-amu.fr> References: <55292D77.7080201@univ-amu.fr> Message-ID: <554692FF.8040907@univ-amu.fr> *Reminder*.Please circulate this to your colleagues, students, virtual and physical communities of peers. I'm sure many will have hilarious, funny and witty encounters with information to share. > > *Call for I-Stories > * > > ** ** ** ** ** **** *SIG History & Foundations of Information Science > * > > http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGHFIS/ > > ** > > Information and communication phenomena are at the heart of our daily > lives. They are how we know things and yet our understanding of these > concepts and underlying phenomena are at best slippery. Just when we > think we?ve pinned or penned them down nicely with a few well chosen > phrases, we discover that those phrases are inadequate, that others > disagree with our definitions or that many other conceptions abound. > Not to bore you with the many varied conceptions of information, the > aim of this call for I-Stories is to bring forth, through everyday > experience, the many different things information can mean to > different people or to the same person in different circumstances in a > lively and entertaining manner. > > The SIG History & Foundations of Information Science solicits stories > on how information and its understanding affect our daily lives, be it > in work situations, in our private lives, in our research. The stories > of information and around information should showcase how effective or > ineffective the concept may be, how it can mean different things to > different people, how that may have got you into > misunderstandings//and how that has got you thinking about information > in general. The stories may concern an event, something that happened > to you or to someone you know, a talk you heard or involve well known > scholars and how they have grappled with this open-ended question. > > We encourage scholars, practitioners, and especially students to send > us a text of at most, 1000 words which can be illustrated with drawings. > > A jury chosen from SIG HFIS members will choose 5 stories that shed > startling, informative and unexpected insights into our understanding > of the phenomenon we call information and of the field we call > information science/studies. > > Stories by students will receive particular attention and if selected, > their authors will receive a 1 year free membership to ASIST and to > HFIS. Membership benefits are varied and can be consulted at > http://www.asis.org/. > > Stories written by practitioners or faculty members if selected will > receive a gift card of $30 as well as 1 year free membership to SIG HFIS. > > Please send your stories to fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr > by 30^th may. > > The jury will render the result of its deliberation by 30^th June. > > Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan > > HFIS chair (2014-2015) > > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/ Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team: http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Thu May 7 14:38:15 2015 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 20:38:15 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] ASIS&T History Fund Research and Best Paper Awards Message-ID: <554BB117.6020108@univ-amu.fr> **The Advisory Board announces the following two competitive awards for 2015: ** *The ASIS&T History Fund Research Award * This award will be for a maximum of $2,000 and will be awarded for the best research proposal submitted by June 20, 2015. All topics relevant to the history of information science and technology may be proposed. The proposal should include: the central topic or question to be researched and an extended abstract, qualifications of the researcher (brief vita should be included), a budget and how the funds will be expended. All funds must be expended by June 30, 2016. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *The ASIS&T History Fund Best Paper Award * This award will be for a maximum of $500 and will be awarded for the best paper submitted by June 20, 2015. All topics relevant to the history of information science and technology will be considered. The paper may have been previously published or submitted to a journal. The paper should not exceed 30 pages double-spaced, including notes and references, using APA Style Manual. Nominations or self-nominations can be made from anywhere. *Webpage for the awards and submission link here:* https://www.asist.org/about/awards/history-fund-awards/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ASIS&T History Fund was established by the ASIS&T Board of Directors in June, 2000 for the purposes of supporting and encouraging research and publication in the history of information science and technology. The Fund is supported by donations (including book royalties) from ASIS&T members and others with interest in the history of information science and technology. The Fund Advisory Board encourages further donations from anyone interested in supporting historical study of information science and technology. Members of the ASIS&T History Fund Advisory Board for 2015 are: Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Chair SIG HFIS) Ken Herold (chair-elect SIG HFIS) Robert Williams Michael Buckland Kathryn La Barre Trudi Bellardo Hahn -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/ Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team: http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Fri May 15 08:09:44 2015 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 14:09:44 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Webinar "From ISquares to CSquares": 18th June 2015 Message-ID: <5555E208.7010907@univ-amu.fr> Dear all, This webinar may be of interest to you. ---------------------- *Title*: From I-Squares to C-Squares. Teaching Information and Communication theories using Draw & Write Technique* When*: Thursday, June 18, 2015, 10:00am ? 11:00am (EDT)/. /Sponsored by SIG HFIS ./ /***Presenters*: Jenna Hartel (Uni. Toronto - Canada) & Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Uni Aix-Marseille, France)*To register*: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/webinar-from-i-squares-to-c-squares/ _Description_ Information and communication are at the basis of how we know things (epistemology), they are omnipresent in every field of activity. This also makes them very slippery concepts or realities: they often mean different things to different people, hence their exploration is endless. Many of us have grappled with how to convey what we think information and communication mean in our teachings or in our research. Teaching information and communication theories in a pure academic manner can be dead boring. Hence, the idea developed by Jenna Hartel (2013) to use arts-informed technique to approach the different conceptions of Information in a fun and creative way. The current webinar is therefore a follow-up to Jenna Hartel?s webinar of 2014 (https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/isquares/). We applied this arts-informed approach in a French higher education setting and took the experiment further by extending it to the concept of communication. Our webinar reports on how Masters? student in a French School of Journalism and Communication (Aix-Marseille University) perceive the concepts of information and communication. An international I-Square group has been formed and experiments have begun worldwide on conceptions of information using graphic representations (Hartel 2014: http://www.isquares.info/). -------------------------- Hope you can register and participate! best, -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/ Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team: http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rlitwin at gmail.com Wed May 20 10:24:28 2015 From: rlitwin at gmail.com (Rory Litwin) Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 07:24:28 -0700 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information Message-ID: Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information **Note the June 1st deadline.** 1. Nature of the Award 1.1 The award shall consist of $1,000, given annually to a graduate student who is working on a dissertation on the philosophy of information (broadly construed). As we see it, the range of philosophical questions relating to information is broad, and approachable through a variety of philosophical traditions (philosophy of mind, logic, philosophy of information so-called, philosophy of science, etc.). 2. Purpose of the Award 2.1 The purpose of this award is to encourage and support scholarship in the philosophy of information. 3. Eligibility 3.1 The scholarship recipient must meet the following qualifications: (a) Be an active doctoral student whose primary area of research is directly philosophical, whether the institutional setting is philosophy or another discipline; that is to say, the mode of dissertation research must be philosophical as opposed to empirical or literary study; (b) Have completed all course work; and (c) Have had a dissertation proposal accepted by the institution. 3.2 Recipients may receive the award not more than once. 4. Administration 4.1 The Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information is sponsored and administered by Litwin Books, LLC, an independent scholarly publisher. 5. Nominations 5.1 Nominations should be submitted via email by June 1, to award at litwinbooks.com. 5.2 The submission package should include the following: (a) The accepted dissertation proposal; (b) A description of the work done to date; (c) A letter of recommendation from a dissertation committee member; (d) An up-to-date curriculum vitae with current contact information. 6. Selection of the Awardee 6.1 Submissions will be judged on merit with emphasis on the following: (a) Clarity of thought; (b) Originality; (c) Relevance to our time; (d) Evidence of good progress toward completion. 7. Notification 7.1 The winner and any honorable mentions will be notified via letter by July 1. Advisory Board Jonathan Furner, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Ron Day, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University John Budd, School of Information & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri Past Winners 2014: Patrick Gavin, of the University of Western Ontario FIMS, for his dissertation propsoal, titled, "On Informationalized Borderzones: A Study in the Politics and Ethics of Emerging Border Architectures." 2013: Steve McKinlay, of Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia, for his dissertation proposal, titled, "Information Ethics and the Problem of Reference." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sat May 23 18:40:41 2015 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 00:40:41 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] ACM MEDES 2015 (extended deadlines): Call for papers (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Message-ID: <1GFU3WBO-BRNT-EBN3-RN3I-31WTX23UAJ3G@u-bourgogne.fr> * Submission Deadline has been extended * The 7th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence ??????????????????????in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2015) ??????????????In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 ??????????????????????http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/15/ ????????????????????????????October 25-29, 2015 ??????????????????????Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in 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. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Submission Deadline:? June 10th, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: July 3rd, 2015 Camera Ready: July 08th, 2015 Paper Registration: July 09th, 2015 Conference Dates: 25-29 October 2015 Keynote speakers ---------------- Nivio Ziviani, CEO, Zunnit Technologies, Brazil Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil Mario A. Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada Conference Chairs ---------------- Victor Pellegrini Mammana, CTI, Brazil Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Eduado Antonio Mondena, IFSP, Brazil Program Chairs ---------------- Agma Traina, Sao Paolo University, Brazil Oscar Salviano, CTI, Brazil Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From michel.menou at orange.fr Sun May 31 05:39:25 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 11:39:25 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Fwd: [icie] CFP - Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information Age In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <556AD6CD.4000409@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [icie] CFP - Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information Age Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 09:42:44 -0600 From: Jared Bielby To: icie at zkm.de , Marco Schneider Call for articles: Liinc em Revista Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information Age Liinc em Revista is accepting submission of articles for the next issue ? Volume 11, n.2 ? to be published in November 2015. This issue will contain a dossi? on Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information Age, whose editors are Marco Schneider (IBICT and PPGMC-UFF) and Gustavo Saldanha (IBICT and UNIRIO). The dossi? will welcome articles discussing ethical dilemmas underlying theories that approach diverse contemporary informational practices; scientific regulations on ethics; power and epistemic authority; ethics, information, and validation; use of science as ethics and of ethics as science. We accept unpublished articles in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. Besides the dossi?, the journal also accepts reviews and articles within its fields of interest. See http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/index.php/liinc/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Send your submissions through http://www.ibict.br/liinc before July 8, 2015. -- Jared Bielby Editor-in-Chief, TFN Co-chair, ICIE Editor, IRIE www.jaredbielby.com www.thefreelancenetizen.com No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5941 / Virus Database: 4347/9839 - Release Date: 05/22/15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sun May 31 14:45:27 2015 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 20:45:27 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] ACM MEDES 2015 (submission deadline approaching): Call for papers (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Message-ID: * Submission Deadline is approaching * The 7th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence ??????????????????????in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2015) ??????????????In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 ??????????????????????http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/15/ ????????????????????????????October 25-29, 2015 ??????????????????????Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in 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. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Submission Deadline:? June 10th, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: July 3rd, 2015 Camera Ready: July 08th, 2015 Paper Registration: July 09th, 2015 Conference Dates: 25-29 October 2015 Keynote speakers ---------------- Nivio Ziviani, CEO, Zunnit Technologies, Brazil Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil Mario A. Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada Conference Chairs ---------------- Victor Pellegrini Mammana, CTI, Brazil Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Eduado Antonio Mondena, IFSP, Brazil Program Chairs ---------------- Agma Traina, Sao Paolo University, Brazil Oscar Salviano, CTI, Brazil Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list)