From WHe at odu.edu Sat Jan 3 12:11:33 2015 From: WHe at odu.edu (He, Wu) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 17:11:33 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] CFP: Social Media Analytics from Online Information Review Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings _________________________________________________________________ Special issue call for papers from Online Information Review Social Media Analytics What is the special issue about? Guest edited by Dr. Wu He of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA and Dr. Guandong Xu of University of Technology Sydney, Australia. As social media analytics is a young and emerging interdisciplinary research topic, limited studies have been devoted to unveiling the value, impact and implications of social media analytics for the management and use of online information. Accordingly, the primary goal of this special issue of Online Information Review is to showcase cutting-edge research advances in social media analytics in order to provide a landscape of recent research progress and novel applications, techniques and strategies in analysing online information posted on various social media platforms. This special issue solicits high-quality innovative papers related to social media analytics to unveiling the value, impact and implications of social media analytics for the management and use of online information. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Novel applications of social media analytics ? Novel techniques, methods and strategies for analysing social media data ? Social media analytics and business value ? Social media analytics and privacy ? Social media analytics and human behavior ? Search in social networks and social media ? Community detection and evolution ? Knowledge discovery (collective wisdom, trend analysis and topic detection) ? Analysis of different forms of user-generated content in the online context ? Social reputation and recommendation systems Please feel free to contact either Guest Editor if you have questions or queries about the issue or submissions. The full CFP is available at http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=5712 Proposed schedule ? Papers due: 1 March 2015 ? First round decisions made: 15 May 2015 ? Revised manuscript due: 15 July 2015 ? Final decisions made: 15 August 2015 ? Publication: OIR Vol 39, no 7 (2015) Submissions guidance ?Every submission must spell out the implications of findings in the paper for online information as distinct from implications for e-commerce, education, etc. (These implications should be mentioned in the introduction, discussion and conclusion sections of your paper.) Papers which focus on findings for specific sectors without adequate attention to the online environment will not be accepted. ?Please read the publication style guidelines before submitting your paper ?Go here to register/or log on to submit your paper to ScholarOne ?Full information and guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available here Rejections OIR generally rejects the following type of submissions ?Papers that require mathematics to develop, test or analyse concepts or findings (these require non-mathematical explanations for the readership of OIR) ?Questionnaire-based studies based on convenience samples that expand previous studies only moderately (these should focus on a new topic, and argue convincingly that convenience sampling is necessary, to be acceptable) ?TAM or other standard model-based submissions applied in a formulaic way to a limited population and which do not significantly advance our knowledge of the topic More information about the topic of the Special Issue Social media have become ubiquitous and are playing an increasingly critical role in society. The wide use of social media platforms has generated massive user-generated contents (UGCs). To leverage these UGCs, it is important for organizations to develop capability of collecting, storing and analyzing social media data for the purpose of harvesting information and actionable knowledge for decision making and forecasting. As one consequence of these developments, social media analytics has emerged as an important area of study. Social media analytics is concerned with using advanced informatics tools and analytics techniques to collect, monitor, and analyze social media data to extract useful patterns and intelligence. Therefore, the development of effective and efficient analytics techniques for social media analytics becomes essential. To conduct social media analytics, data mining, text analysis and sentiment analysis techniques are frequently adopted. Recently there has been strong interest in the power of social media analytics in creating new value, supporting decision-making and enhancing competitive advantage. As social media analytics is an emerging interdisciplinary research topic, limited studies have been devoted to unveiling the value, impact and implications of social media analytics for the management and use of online information. About the Journal Online Information Review is an international, double blind peer-reviewed, ISI-listed (2013 Impact Factor is 1.443) journal devoted to research in the broad field of online information in academic, government, corporate, scientific and commercial contexts. Within this broad framework the journal seeks to provide a forum for experts from a range of information-related disciplines, including information science, information technology, information management, knowledge management and related social sciences. ?Online information? encompasses any information that is stored and viewed in electronic form, from e-books to databases, document management systems and any other information-bearing artifacts in electronic format. OIR focuses on issues relating to online systems, services and resources, and their use, with a particular focus on the processes and procedures involved in creating, managing, utilizing, disseminating and repackaging online information (including social, political and ethical aspects). - See more at: http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=5712#sthash.2OHdjoBD.dpuf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caryn.anderson at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 10:52:31 2015 From: caryn.anderson at gmail.com (Caryn Anderson) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:52:31 -0600 Subject: [Siguse-l] Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015 Message-ID: Please forgive cross-posting. For information scientists interested in making research and research methods more accessible across disciplines, particularly for complex social problems, the opportunity below may be of interest. (full RFP on SESYNC website ) I have worked with Professor Bammer in her efforts to collate, organize and develop theory and methods for transdisciplinary research. I outlined some of the philosophies that underpin this funding opportunity in an 2008 ASIST Bulletin article . Her book on Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods is an example of one kind of research methods synthesis. Professor Bammer is very keen to see a team of information scientists participate in this effort to synthesize research methods and has asked to share this RFP with ASIST members. The expectation is that multiple teams in different subject areas will generate aggregated transdisciplinary research methods toolkits, databases, and/or curricula for training inter-disciplinary research teams. An information science team should be able to assist with determining how to organize and distribute such information (the output of all the teams supported by this SESYNC project) for effective discovery and use by all researchers working on complex social problems. Information science teams may also be able to design strategies for finding and aggregating methods across disciplines generally or in support of the other teams in the project. This may be of particular interest to information scientists focused on scholarly communication, information needs/use, knowledge management, and science and technical information. There is also potential for classification and digital libraries specialists. Funding is for travel, accommodation & meals for teams to meet at SESYNC in Maryland multiple times over two years. Cheers, Caryn Anderson Research Information Specialist & PhD Student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clndrsn2 at illinois.edu caryn.anderson at gmail.com ------------------------------ *Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015* *Details:* http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education Proposals are invited for synthesis projects focused on tools, methods, and other practices applicable to actionable team research on socio-environmental problems. Multiple teams will be supported, and together their syntheses will contribute towards the development of new toolkits, roadmaps, curricula, and other practical advice. Effective team science is key to finding solutions to socio-environmental problems. Many tools have been developed for integrating ideas, data, and methods across the diverse disciplines involved when researching complex problems. Similarly, practices have been identified that facilitate the linkage of research results with informed policy decisions. Relatively few of these tools and practices have been assessed and optimized for addressing socio-environmental challenges. We invite proposals for synthesis and refinement of the tools and practices of team science from all disciplinary sources for use in socio-environmental applications. The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) will fund up to six international teams (up to 12 members each) to meet over two years (approximately four three-day meetings per team) to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the practices, tools, methods, and strategies of transdisciplinary team science to significantly improve research teams? effectiveness at understanding socio-environmental problems and informing socio-environmental decisions. The focus may be on improving research methods, on educating new generations of researchers, or both. This call is open to researchers and educators with expertise in all aspects of the practice and scholarship of actionable team research, including diverse areas of environmental and social investigation and other areas that have not traditionally engaged in socio-environmental contexts, such as public health, international development, security, or other research areas. Successful proposals could include participants from a variety of relevant disciplines including environmental science, ecology, social psychology, systemic intervention, political science, organizational management, implementation science, cognitive science, operations research, information science, and computer science. *Purpose* The aim of the synthesis teams to be established under this proposal is to aggregate and synthesize the tools, methods, and other practices used in action-oriented team research as applicable to socio-environmental science. We encourage proposals that address issues across all stages throughout the lifecycle of an interdisciplinary project from problem formulation to approach design, data gathering analysis and synthesis, publication and other dissemination, implementation, and assessment, although individual teams might only work on a subset of these. Many types or combinations of synthesis approaches are possible and many sources of data for aggregation and analysis are appropriate, including diverse case study examples, concepts, methodologies, procedures, protocols, computational applications, or theoretical foundations. *Additional Info* Visit http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education for complete details. Proposals must be received by March 9, 2015, at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). *Questions?* For general inquiries, or contacts from individuals who are interested but are not currently part of a team, please contact Gabriele Bammer ( Gabriele.Bammer at anu.edu.au) or David Hawthorne (dhawthorne at sesync.org). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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By participating in the survey you will get a chance to: - Browse a list of resources about happiness from writers, designers and psychologists. - See examples of how to measure user happiness. - Get food for thought about how much care, effort and conscious work you put into your process to make sure you make a positive impact on user and customer happiness. - Contribute to a global exploration about happiness and the way we create webs, mobile apps and digital services. We want to thank you in advance for your time and your thoughts. We truly appreciate them. As a token of our thanks, you will receive a selected list of resources about Happiness as well as have the chance to participate in a draw to win a digital copy of Abby Covert's 2014 book, How to Make Sense of Any Mess. Thank you for sharing your views in the survey. *http://bit.ly/1KY0v4Y * If you like it, please help us to spread the word. 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