From mcunha at ipca.pt Wed Feb 5 07:06:14 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:06:14 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] HCist 2014 - Int. Conf. on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies | CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <201402051206.s15C6ELq021557@mail.asis.org> ---------- HCIST 2014 International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014 http://hcist.scika.org ---------- ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 19, 2014 Final Submission due date: June 10, 2014 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://hcist.scika.org) until April 10, 2014. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between seven and ten pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Technology series and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Like in previous editions, accepted full and short papers will be submitted for indexation in major indexes such as Thomson ISI and SCOPUS. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://hcist.scika.org ---------- ---------- Committees and Keynote speaker General conference chairs: - Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal - Rui Rijo, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal Program Chair: - Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA Keynote speaker: - Petra Schubert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Organization Chair: - Ricardo Correia, University of Porto, Portugal ---------- We look forward to welcome you in our beautiful Troia, Portugal, next October. From mcunha at ipca.pt Wed Feb 5 07:06:57 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:06:57 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CENTERIS 2014 - Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems | CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <201402051207.s15C6wFJ021595@mail.asis.org> ---------- CENTERIS 2014 Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014 http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 19, 2014 Final Submission due date: June 10, 2014 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://centeris.scika.org) until April 10, 2014. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between seven and ten pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Technology series and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Like in previous editions, accepted full and short papers will be submitted for indexation in major indexes such as Thomson ISI and SCOPUS. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- Committees and Keynote speaker General conference chairs: - Jo?o Eduardo Quintela Varaj?o, University of Minho, Portugal - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave, Portugal Program Chair: - Niels Bj?rn-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Danmark Keynote speaker: - Petra Schubert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Organization Chair: - Emanuel Peres, University of Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal ---------- We look forward to welcome you in our beautiful Troia, Portugal, next October. From mcunha at ipca.pt Wed Feb 5 07:07:46 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:07:46 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] ProjMAN 2014 - International Conference on Project MANagement | CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <201402051208.s15C7m7b021674@mail.asis.org> ---------- ProjMAN 2014 International Conference on Project MANagement an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014 http://projman.scika.org ---------- ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 19, 2014 Final Submission due date: June 10, 2014 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://projman.scika.org) until April 10, 2014. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between seven and ten pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Technology series and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Like in previous editions, accepted full and short papers will be submitted for indexation in major indexes such as Thomson ISI and SCOPUS. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://projman.scika.org ---------- We look forward to welcome you in our beautiful Troia, Portugal, next October. From jlorince at indiana.edu Sat Feb 8 12:22:16 2014 From: jlorince at indiana.edu (Jared Lorince) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:22:16 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Message-ID: *** Apologies for multiple postings *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & ACCEPTED SATELLITE EVENTS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org / @WebSciConf / #WebSci14 Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014 Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. Call for Papers The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh, WebSci'11 in Koblenz, WebSci '12 in Evanston, and WebSci'13 in Paris, for the 2014 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis of human behavior using social media, mobile devices, and online communities * Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based * large-scale social interaction * Data-mining and network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web * Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions * on the Web * Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing * Theories and methods for computational social science on the Web * Studies of public health and health-related behavior on the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web * Economics and social innovation on the Web * Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons * Personal data, trust, and privacy * Web and social media research ethics * Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems * Big data and the study of the Web * Web access, literacy, and development * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web * People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces * Digital humanities * Arts & culture on the Web or engaging audiences using Web resources * Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives * New research questions and thought-provoking ideas Submission Web Science is necessarily a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the ACM DL proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory (opt-out via EasyChair). All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single-track conference. All accepted posters will be given a spot in the single-track lightning talk session, and room to present their papers during a dedicated poster session. Full research papers (5 to 10 pages, ACM double column, 20 mins presentation including Q&A) Full research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column, 15 mins presentation including Q&A) Short research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers can present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Posters (up to 2 pages, ACM double column, lightning talk + poster presentation) Extended abstracts for posters, which should be in English, can be up to 2 pages. Submission instructions Full and short paper and poster submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Please make use of the ACM 1998 classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/), and submit papers using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014. Other creative submission formats (flexible formats) Other types of creative submissions are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear both what they propose to do, and any special requirements they would need to successfully do it (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) Review The Web Science program committee consists of a program committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members and one short meta review written by a Co-PC chair, to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. (Optional) Archival Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2014 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can "opt out" of the proceedings). Satellite Events The following is the list of accepted satellite events. All workshops will be held on June 23. Full day events Altmetrics14 - Expanding Impacts and Metrics http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics14 Judit Bar-Ilan, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Groth, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Lariviere, Isabella Peters and Mike Taylor Massive Data Flow: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of the Web Seth Bullock, Takashi Ikegami and Mizuki Oka Computational Approaches to Social Modeling (ChASM) http://www.chasm.ws Andrea Baronchelli, Bruno Goncalves, Nicola Perra, Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier, Noshir Contractor, and Emilio Ferrara The web of scientific knowledge: current trends and future perspectives in the big data era Filippo Radicchi, Stasa Milosevic, Ying Ding, Cassidy Sugimoto, Vincent Leriviere, and Min Song Yonsei Doctoral Consortium Howard Rosenbaum, Pnina Fichman, Lora Aroyo Half-day events Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities http://www.icc.ecs.soton.ac.uk Clare J. Hooper, David Millard and Norhidayah Azman Web Science Education: Sharing experiences and developing community http://webscience-education-workshop.net Stephane B. Bazan, Su White, Steffen Staab, Michalis Vafopoulos, Susan Halford, Clare Hooper, Hans Akkermans and Mark Weal Research Methodologies for analyzing Cybercrime and Cyberwar http://webscience-cybercrime-workshop.net Dominic Hobson, Neil Macewan, Lisa Sugiura, Stephane B. Bazan and Craig Webber 2nd International Workshop on Building Web Observatories (B-WOW2014) https://sites.google.com/site/bwow2014 Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ian Brown and Wendy Hall Deadlines Full & Short Papers: * 23 February 2014: Submissions of full and short papers * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for papers * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of papers and posters due Late Breaking Posters: * 23 March 2014: Submissions of posters * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for posters * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of posters due Authors take note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (If proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date is the first day of the conference.) Conference calendar and rough program * 23 June 2014: workshops, opening reception and keynote * 24 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, poster reception * 25 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, social event * 26 June 2014: keynote, technical program, closing General chairs * Fil Menczer, Indiana University * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Program chairs * Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz and GESIS (Computing) * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Physics) * Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Social Sciences) Program Commiteee * Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University * Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Research * William Allen, University of Oxford * Sitaram Asur, HP Labs * Alain Barrat, CNRS * Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais * Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc * Paolo Boldi, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Niels Brugger, Aarhus Universitet * Licia Capra, University College London * Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Lu Chen, Wright State University * Cristobal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute * David Crandall, Indiana University * Pasquale De Meo, VU University, Amsterdam * David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre * Pnina Fichman, Indiana University * Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University * Matteo Gagliolo, Universite libre de Bruxelles * Laetitia Gauvin, ISI Foundation, Turin * Daniel Gayo Avello, University of Oviedo * Scott Golder, Cornell University * Bruno Goncalves, Aix-Marseille Universite * Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California * Scott Hale, Oxford Internet Institute * Noriko Hara, Indiana University * Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft * Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University * Ajita John, Avaya Labs * Robert Jaschke, L3S Research Center * Haewoon Kwak, Telefonica Research * Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur * Matthieu Latapy, CNRS * Silvio Lattanzi, Google * Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute * Sune Lehmann, Technical University of Denmark * Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California * David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College * Yu-Ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh * Huan Liu, Arizona State University * Jared Lorince, Indiana University * Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University * Massimo Marchiori, University of Padova and UTILABS * Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo * Jaimie Murdock, Indiana University * Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham * Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover * Andre Panisson, ISI Foundation, Turin * Hanwoo Park, Yeungnam University * Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano * Leto Peel, University of Colorado, Boulder * Orion Penner, IMT Lucca * Nicola Perra, Northeastern University * Rob Procter, University of Warwick * Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society * Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! 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Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili * Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam * Daniel Romero, Northwestern University * Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University * Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino * Derek Ruths, McGill University * Rossano Schifanella, Universita di Torino * Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute * Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * Xiaolin Shi, Microsoft * Elena Simperl, University of Southampton * Philipp Singer, Knowledge Management Institute * Marc Smith, Connected Action Consulting Group * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich * Lei Tang, @WalmartLabs * Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota * Sebastiano Vigna, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Claudia Wagner, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences * Jillian Wallis, UC Los Angeles * Stan Wasserman, Indiana University * Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Matthew Weber, Rutgers University * Lilian Weng, Indiana University * Christopher Wienberg, University of Southern California * Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara * Arkaitz Zubiaga, Dublin Institute of Technology Arkaitz Zubiaga, * Dublin Institute of Technology -- Jared Lorince PhD student, ABC West Lab Cognitive Science // Psychological & Brain Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington https://mypage.iu.edu/~jlorince Co-Founder, motivateplay.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 09:07:27 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:27 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] AMCIS 2014> CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Minitrack Message-ID: <8B0FF476-FE06-4801-8A31-0CDD69534B3F@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Feb 10 09:07:35 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:07:35 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] AMCIS 2014 > CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <2F7CCF6F-C2D6-4DD5-86CD-7C3FF3920A7C@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Feb 17 16:56:04 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:56:04 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] HCist 2014 - Int. Conf. on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies | CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <201402172156.s1HLu4XU024881@mail.asis.org> ---------- HCIST 2014 International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014 http://hcist.scika.org ---------- ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 19, 2014 Final Submission due date: June 10, 2014 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://hcist.scika.org) until April 10, 2014. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage. All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Technology series and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Like in previous editions, accepted full and short papers will be submitted for indexation in major indexes such as Thomson ISI and SCOPUS. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://hcist.scika.org ---------- ---------- Committees and Keynote speaker General conference chairs: - Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal - Rui Rijo, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal Program Chair: - Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA Keynote speaker: - Petra Schubert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Organization Chair: - Ricardo Correia, University of Porto, Portugal ---------- We look forward to welcome you in our beautiful Troia, Portugal, next October. From mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Feb 17 16:58:30 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:58:30 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] ProjMAN 2014 - International Conference on Project MANagement | CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <201402172158.s1HLwVVH024974@mail.asis.org> ---------- ProjMAN 2014 International Conference on Project MANagement an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014 http://projman.scika.org ---------- ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 19, 2014 Final Submission due date: June 10, 2014 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://projman.scika.org) until April 10, 2014. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage. All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Technology series and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Like in previous editions, accepted full and short papers will be submitted for indexation in major indexes such as Thomson ISI and SCOPUS. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://projman.scika.org ---------- We look forward to welcome you in our beautiful Troia, Portugal, next October. The conference chairs, Jo?o Eduardo Quintela Varaj?o, University of Minho, Portugal Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave, Portugal From mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Feb 17 16:59:49 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:59:49 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CENTERIS 2014 - Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems | CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <201402172159.s1HLxotd025068@mail.asis.org> ---------- CENTERIS 2014 Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Troia, Portugal, October 15-17, 2014 http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 19, 2014 Final Submission due date: June 10, 2014 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://centeris.scika.org) until April 10, 2014. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage. All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Technology series and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Like in previous editions, accepted full and short papers will be submitted for indexation in major indexes such as Thomson ISI and SCOPUS. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- Committees and Keynote speaker General conference chairs: - Jo?o Eduardo Quintela Varaj?o, University of Minho, Portugal - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave, Portugal Program Chair: - Niels Bj?rn-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Danmark Keynote speaker: - Petra Schubert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Organization Chair: - Emanuel Peres, University of Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal ---------- We look forward to welcome you in our beautiful Troia, Portugal, next October. From jhuns at vt.edu Thu Feb 20 13:27:10 2014 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:27:10 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research Message-ID: <7728DBE3-6A47-4124-95B3-5211CB00ABB0@vt.edu> Apologies for crossposting, please distribute as appropriate: Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. Critique chapters will define and develop critical positions in the field of internet research. They can engage a theoretical perspective, a methodological perspective, a historical trend or topic in internet research and provide a critical perspective. These chapters might also define one type of critical perspective, tradition, or field in the field of internet research. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the three sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance by January 1st, 2015. The chapters will be due September 2015, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: ? Section (Either Foundations, Futures, or Critiques) ? Title of chapter ? Author name/s, institutional details ? Corresponding author?s email address ? Keywords (no more than 5) ? Abstract (no more than 500 words) ? References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook at gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain From apw06 at my.fsu.edu Fri Feb 21 17:48:53 2014 From: apw06 at my.fsu.edu (Adam Worrall) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 17:48:53 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP: 3rd ASE International Conference on Social Informatics Message-ID: A call for papers is included below (via Pnina Fichman) for the 3rd Academy of Science and Engineering (ASE) International Conference on Social Informatics, to be held on December 15 - 19, 2014 in Cambridge, MA. Workshop proposals are due by April 15th, while papers are due by July 15th and posters by October 16th. For further details, please check out the Web site for the conference at http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialinformatics/website. (Note that this conference has no connection to ASIS&T SIG SI.) Adam Worrall Communications Officer, ASIS&T SIG SI Doctoral Candidate, Florida State University School of Information - Florida's iSchool apw06 at my.fsu.edu adam at adamworrall.org http://www.adamworrall.org -- -- -- CFP: SocialInformatics 2014 - Cambridge, MA, USA, December 15-19, 2014 The Third ASE International Conference on Social Informatics http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialinformatics/website/ Social Informatics can be broadly defined as the study of social aspects of computerization, including the role of information and communica-tion technology (ICT) in social and organizational change, the use of ICT in social contexts, and the way that the social organization of ICT is in-fluenced by social forces and social practices. Some Social Informatics scholars use computerization and big data to understand, predict and explain complex social technical phenomena. Some use social science approaches to study the complex relationships between people, ICT and work and play in a wide range of social and organizational settings. So-cial Informatics is an interdisciplinary research domain that includes social studies, human dynamics, computing science, and industrial engi-neering technologies that consider social context. It is one of the emerg-ing themes across a number of information and communication tech-nology fields and has attracted significant interest from not only re-searchers in computing, information science, and social sciences, but also software and online game vendors, web entrepreneurs, political analysts, and digital government practitioners. The International Confer-ences on Social Informatics have become a key forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding innova-tions and advances in the state of art and practice of social informatics. SCOPE AND INTERESTS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Computational Social Science * Human Dynamics * Social Signal Processing * Social Behavior Modeling * Social Informatics Theories * Social Intelligence and Social Cognition * Social media analytics and social media intelligence * Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design * Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Repre-sentation, Influence Process * Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Contexts * Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION * Prepare your manuscripts with the following conference paper styles not more than 10 pages in PDF file. * Submit your paper(s) at the SocialInformatics-2014 submission site. * Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL Submit a workshop proposal including call-for-papers, organizing committee, important dates, short bio of the organizers to the Social-Informatics 2014 workshop chairs. http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialinformatics/website/call-for-workshop/for more details. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 07:00:28 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:00:28 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] AMCIS 2014 > Final CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) Message-ID: <7ED9B6D0-A889-4F76-9DE0-978C97D8BFAC@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. Papers can be submitted beginning on January 5, 2014. The link will be available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2014_papers/ Submissions will close on March 1, 2014. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ _______________________________________________ From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Feb 22 07:04:22 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:04:22 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] AMCIS 2014> Final CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Message-ID: <1FCFB8F1-2303-4172-8262-BA19DC0CD24B@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] Final CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. 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URL: From apw06 at my.fsu.edu Mon Feb 24 11:49:57 2014 From: apw06 at my.fsu.edu (Adam Worrall) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:49:57 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call for Participation: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute Message-ID: A call for applications has been posted for the 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute, organized by the Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST). This year's Summer Institute will be held July 8th - 10th, 2014 at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. Application materials are due to Sean Goggins, Summer Institute co-coordinator, by March 20th, 2014. For more details about the workshop and what materials members of each group should provide in their application, view the announcement and call included below or on the CSST Web site: http://www.sociotech.net/v2/dsst2014. Good luck to everyone! (and apologies for any duplication!) Adam Worrall Communications Officer, ASIS&T SIG SI Doctoral Candidate, Florida State University School of Information - Florida's iSchool apw06 at my.fsu.edu adam at adamworrall.org http://www.adamworrall.org -- -- -- Call for Participation: 2014 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute July 8 - July 10, 2014 (arrival July 7; departure July 11 for 3 full days) University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO http://www.sociotech.net/v2/dsst2014 MOOCs, Education and learning; personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information access; energy management and climate change; civic hacking, engagement and government; disaster response; cybersecurity and privacy - these are just a few problem domains where effective design and robust understanding of complex sociotechnical systems is critical. To meet these challenges a trans-disciplinary community of scholars has come together from fields as wide ranging as CSCW, HCI, social computing, organization studies, information visualization, social informatics, sociology, information systems, medical informatics, computer science, ICT for development, education, learning science, journalism, and political science. Through summer institutes (CSST), extended workshops (Social Webshop), preconference workshops at a wide variety of venues, and other activities (Digital Societies and Technology Research Coordination Network) this community of researchers from academia and industry has developed a strong focus on problems and opportunities arising from the interplay of social and technological systems which span individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. The 2014 Summer Institute builds on this tradition to strengthen and expand this diverse community by bringing together graduate students, post doctoral students, faculty, and other researchers in four groups at the University of Missouri - Columbia on July 8 - 10, 2014: Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers - Through mentoring, peer networking, and skill-building tutorials, doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers will identify substantive ways that the theories, approaches, and tools within the larger community can advance their work with the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Established researchers - Prior summer institute/workshop participants and established researchers will network with other researchers (senior and junior), explore ideas and new directions, shape emerging research agendas, articulate critical challenges, and share knowledge about practices, tools, and approaches which have the potential to advance the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams - Nascent groups of researchers seeking to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations will work with peers and mentors to refine problem statements and research goals; connect with collaborators with complementary skills and interests; and create actionable research agendas and funding proposals. Preference will be given to groups interested in designing and studying sociotechnical systems that address societal grand challenges such as (but not limited to) healthcare; energy management and climate change; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning; disaster response; technology development and innovation; economic development and work; and civic engagement and participation. Research infrastructure development teams - Groups of researchers interested in creating computational or analytic tools, data resources, training materials or other infrastructure to support the design and study of sociotechnical systems will work with one another, other Summer institute participants, and local developers. These infrastructure "hackathon" sessions will result in the creation of use cases, prototypes, draft materials, and when possible deployable systems and resources. ** Applying for DSST 2014 ** Applications are encouraged from all academic, industry, NGO, and public sector organizations worldwide. To apply for the 2013 Summer Institute, select the group that best fits your needs and situation and send the appropriate materials to the Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20, 2014: 1) Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: "How does/will your work advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?" Several core references should be included to situate your work within the larger research community. Doctoral students should also provide a letter of recommendation from their advisor/department chair indicating their expected graduation date. 2) Established researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: "What are the most interesting challenges and opportunities related to the design and study of critical sociotechnical systems? What activity (30 minutes to 4 hours long) could you run that would help the Summer Institute participants better engage these challenges and opportunities?" Proposed activities can be for any (or all) Summer Institute participants and might include, but are not limited to: focused presentations; brainstorming sessions; in-depth problem descriptions; method, tool, or data tutorials; or research agenda setting exercises. 3) Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: "What is the research focus/problem domain? What types of activities/studies are needed to engage that domain? How will pursuing this agenda help advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?" References potential funding sources can be included, if known, to situate the proposal within the larger research community. Groups invited to the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application for it to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Preference will be given to cross-institutional teams in which junior/mid-career researchers play significant leadership roles. 4) Research infrastructure development teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: "What is the problem you are seeking to address? What will you do to address that problem? How will creating these technologies, tools, materials or infrastructure improve our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?" References to examples from other domains can be included to situate your proposal. Teams invited for the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people from multiple disciplines and institutions. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Lodging, meals, and other onsite costs will be covered for all Summer Institute participants. Limited travel support is available, if needed, for participants from US and Canadian institutions (with preference given to doctoral and post-doctoral students). Travel support may also be available for other Summer Institute participants. To be considered for all available financial support you should provide the following information when you apply: - What college or university do you attend? - What is your primary department affiliation? - If you are applying from a Canadian university, are you a member of the GRAND network? Materials should be sent to Summer Institute co-coordinator (Sean Goggins) at gogginss at missouri.edu by March 20th, 2014. Applications will be reviewed by the Summer Institute Advisory Group beginning March 30th, 2014 using the following criteria: - Clear articulation of the hoped-for contribution to the theory, practice, or design of sociotechnical systems - Likelihood of Summer Institute participation providing significant practical benefit for the individual/team - Contribution to a balanced and diverse group of participants The number of participants selected will depend on the available funding and the fit between applicants' interests and goals. For more information about the Summer Institute, contact the Summer Institute co-coordinators, Sean Goggins (gogginss at missouri.edu) and Diane Bailey (debailey at ischool.utexas.edu). For information about the broader community of researchers interested in design and study of sociotechnical systems, see: CSST (www.sociotech.net), the "Researchers of the Socio-Technical" Facebook group, or the CSST listserv (csst at listserv.syr.edu ). 2014 Mentors Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan Diane Bailey, University of Texas (Co-Director) Paul Dourish, University of California - Irvine Nicole Ellison, University of Michigan Sean Goggins, University of Missouri (Co-Director) Erik Johnston, Arizona State University Tony Salvador, Intel Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse Susan Stuckey, IBM Steve Sawyer, Syracuse (Digital Societies RCN) Wayne Lutters, UMBC (Digital Societies RCN) Brian Butler, Maryland (Digital Societies RCN) Andrea Hoplight-Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University (Digital Societies RCN) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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