[Sigia-l] Bookings now open: DGI-Conference 2012 "Social Media & Web Science". European Afternoon on March 22nd, Düsseldorf Germany.

[Isabella Peters]

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
(http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/diata12) 

Düsseldorf/Germany
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View the complete conference programme at:
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article&id=288&Itemid=122> &view=article&id=288&Itemid=122 

Register here:
http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content
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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