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[ecrea] cfp smart 2014 (Social Media in Academia: Research and Teaching)

Sat Jun 14 16:40:35 GMT 2014



CALL FOR PAPERS - SMART 2014

http://smart2014.edusoft.ro

Conference proceedings will be indexed by Thomson Reuters. Extended papers can be published as chapters in a Springer book

Social Media in Academia: Research and Teaching provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest research on social media the challenges in the educational and political context. Our conference is essential for professionals aiming to improve their understanding of social media at different levels of education and civic/social/political engagement as well as researchers in the fields of e-learning, educational science, political science, new media, and information and communication sciences and much more.

On one hand, with the emergence/increased use of social media tools, a large number of higher education institutions are embracing this new ecology of information offered by social media. More and more colleges and universities from all over the world are transitioning from traditional teaching/learning towards social media teaching/learning, widening their curriculum landscape beyond technology by integrating different forms of social media, like social networks, microblogs, or cloud computing. However, in this era of fundamental changes in education brought by virtual worlds and augmented reality, dominated by mobile devices and applications, it is necessary to rethink the academic work environments based on social media tools and applications like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, in accordance with the learning needs, skills, and competencies of students.

On the other hand, our conference sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of the internet, and more specifically social media, in the political and social discourse. We intend to collect original research on the use of social media in political campaigns, electoral marketing, riots and social revolutions, presenting a range of case studies from across the world as well as theoretical and methodological contributions. Examples that explore the use of social media in electoral campaigns, the usage of Twitter and other Web 2.0 tools in mobilizing people for riots and revolutions, are for interest to us, among other topics.

* Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Academic applications for podcasting * Academic events through social-media (Eventful, The Hotlist, Meetup.com, Upcoming, Eventseer, AllConferences)
    * Analytics for social media
* Application of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science to politics or public policy
    * Blogging for persuasing the voters
    * Budgeting for social media in academic organizations
    * Case studies
    * Case studies
    * Case studies for successful social media commuting and presenting
    * Case study: Melbourne, Australia, 2011
    * Citizen surveillance on the Internet
    * Civic engagement in the Digital Age
    * Collaborative E-democracy
    * Communication, both internal and external
    * Diagramming and visual collaboration in educational institutions
    * Digital Democracy
    * Digital divide
    * Digital Politics
    * Disability accommodation in technology usage
* Document Managing and Editing Tools: Docs.com, Dropbox.com, Google Docs, Syncplicity
    * Domain name seizures without due process
    * E-democracy
    * Electronic rulemaking
    * E-participation
    * Equal access to information
    * Executive and employee social media education and training.
* Facebook and Twitter for mobilizing people for social revolutions/riots
    * Facebook, Twitter for winning elections
    * Free speech in the information age
    * Freedom from computer crime and abuse
    * Freedom of expression in the information age
    * Freedom of religion on the Internet
    * Freedom to connect/organize on the Internet
    * Future research directions
    * Future research directions in Social Media
    * Global access to information
    * Government Political Processes in the Information Age
    * Government restriction on access to Web sites
    * Guerilla politics (cyberbullying, satire)
    * Hacking into government computers
    * How do universities deal with social media obstacles/shortcomings
    * Impact of social media on the quality of the didactic process
    * Information freedom
* Integrating social media and traditional media within the academic environment
    * Interactive public docket
    * Internet abuse and data misuse
    * Internet access in prisons
    * Internet censorship
    * Internet Freedom
    * Lawsuits against whistleblowers
    * Livecasting for education
* Location-based social networks (Facebook places, Foursquare, Geoloqi, Google Latitude, Gowalla, The Hotlist)
    * Mobile social media and mobile teaching/learning
    * Net neutrality
    * Netizen rights
    * Online campaigning using social networking/multimedia tools
    * Online harassment of decision makers
    * Online piracy
    * Online political videos
    * Online political videos and campaigns
    * Open government
    * Open politics
    * Open-source governance
    * Other Political Expression in the Information Age
    * Parliamentary informatics
    * Personal Learning Environments
* Photography and art sharing (deviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Zooomr) and the new education
    * Political activism on the Internet
    * Political blogs
    * Political Campaigns in the Information Age
    * Political debates on the Internet
    * Political vlogs
    * Politics on social networks sites
    * Privacy issues in the information age
    * Research in Social Media: journals, books, conferences, events
    * Right to privacy on the Internet
* Social bookmarking (or social tagging): CiteULike, Delicious, Diigo, Google Reader, StumbleUpon, folkd
    * Social Media and Voting
    * Social media in local electoral campaigns
    * Social media in parlamentary elections
    * Social media in presidential elections
    * Social media tools for schools and universities
* Social networking used in the new academic environment (ASmallWorld, Bebo, Cyworld, Diaspora, Facebook, Google+, Hi5, Hyves, IRC, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Plaxo, Tagged, Tuenti, XING, Yammer)
    * Social news: Digg, Mixx, Social i my2i, Newsvine, NowPublic, Reddit
    * Super-injunctions
    * Teaching through presentation sharing (Prezi, scribd, SlideShare)
    * The advertising of universities using social media
    * The Arab Spring and Social Media
    * The role of web 2.0 in Occupy movement
    * The Spanish Indignados movement and social networks
* The use of Content Management Systems for education (Drupal, Joomla, Plone, Siteforum, Wordpress)
    * Transparency in Social Media
* Twitter Revolutions in Moldova (2009), Iran (2009-2010), Tunisia (2010-2011) and Egypt (2011)
    * Use of social media by politicians in electoral marketing
    * Uses of graph theory for analyzing social networks
* Using blogs (Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, Open Diary, WordPress, Xanga) for educational purposes * Using microblogging (Google Buzz, Identi.ca, Twitter) for communicating academic events
    * Using social media in electoral marketing
* Using video sharing for education (Dailymotion, Metacafe, Nico Nico Douga, Openfilm, sevenload, Viddler, Vimeo, YouTube) * Using wikis (PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, Wikimedia, Wikispaces) in Science Classes * Video sharing services (Flickr, Picasa Web Album, Pinterest, Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe etc.) used for manipulating or altering the perception of people from one geopolitical zone about the regime in other country
    * Video-sharing websites and alterity problems
    * Virtual town hall
    * Virtual war room
    * Warrantless wiretapping
    * Web 2.0 role in !Democracia Real YA!
    * Whistleblower protection/ prosecution/ persecution
    * Whistleblower Web sites
    * Whistleblowing in the Information Age
    * Wikileaks

Location
Timisoara is the county seat of Timis and the most important city in western Romania. It is located in the Banat Plain, on the Bega River. Its territory covers 136 km2 and lies at 45 deg 47 min latitude North and 21deg 15 min longitude East. There are 334,081 inhabitants in Timisoara (over 450,000 with the residents). The town was first mentioned in a donation act issued by King Andrei II in 1212. It developed during the Dynasty of Anjou, when Carol Robert built a palace that was replaced by the Huniade Castle later. Timisoara is rich in cultural and artistic traditions, especially in the theatrical and musical fields. The open-mindedness of the people in Timisoara, the peculiar town planning (Romanian tradition combined with Austrian and modern elements), the interesting mixture of cultures (romanian, serbian, hungarian, german), the great material production, the quality of the services and the upstanding cultural life make Timisoara a city worthy of European standards. The local time in Timisoara is GMT+2. There are some direct flights from European main cities to Timisoara: from Paris (Beauvois), Dortmund, München (Franz Josef Strauss), Milano-Bergamo (Orio al Serio), Bologna (L. Ridolfi), Rome (Ciampino), Treviso, Verona, London (Luton), Barcelona (El Prat, Madrid (Barajas), Valencia (Manises), Bucharest (H. Coanda) Also, you can fly to Timisoara via Bucharest, from a lot of international locations Other close airport (41min of driving on A1 motorway) is Arad. There are direct flights to Arad from Milan (Malpensa) and Bergamo. If you arrive in Bucharest, you can come in Timisoara renting a car (7 h of driving) or by train (8:30 h).

Keynote speakers
Dr. Vaclav Stetka, Leader of the PolCoRe research group at the Institute of Communication Studies, Charles University in Prague Presentation: Social media and citizen participation: new challenges for research Vaclav Stetka is Senior Researcher and Leader of the PolCoRe research group at the Institute of Communication Studies, Charles University in Prague. Between 2009 and 2013 he was Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, where he worked on a project Me-dia and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. His research interests encompass political communication and the role of new media, transformation and democratization of media systems, media ownership and globalization. E-mail: (stetka /at/ fsv.cuni.cz)

Dr. Martin Ebner, Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. at Graz University of Technology, Austria Martin Ebner, Assoc. Prof. PhD is currently head of the Department for Social Learning at Graz University of Technology and therefore responsible for all university wide e-learning activities. He holds an Assoc. Prof. on media informatics and works also at the Institute for Information System Computer Media as senior researcher. His research focuses strongly on e-learning, mobile learning, learning analytics, social media and the usage of Web 2.0 technologies for teaching and learning. Martin gives a number of lectures in this area as well as workshops and talks at international conferences. For publications as well as further research activities please visit the website: http://martinebner.at

Dr Charlotte Holland, Dublin City University, Ireland
Dr. Charlotte Holland is Chair of Undergraduate Studies and lectures in technology in education, education for sustainable development and creative instructional design in the School of Education Studies at Dublin City University. She promotes an interdisciplinary approach to educational practice and research, given the multi-disciplinary nature of her own educational pathway through higher education (with qualifications that include: B.Sc. in Applied Physics, Higher Diploma in Education, Masters in Computers, and a PhD focused on technology in education). She held the Chair of the Institute of Educational Research in Ireland from 2010-2011. She continues to be very successful in attracting research funding at national and EU levels, and actively undertakes research, supervises doctoral research and publishes in the areas of technology-enabled learning, education for sustainability and values-based learning. Her research interests more specifically include: Sustainable online learning communities, Learning 2.0, Science and citizenship education, and Meta-cognition in independent learning.

Dr. Tomaz Dezelan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Presentation: Political Communication and Social Media: Revolution or evolution? Tomaz Dezelan, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, and a researcher at the Centre for Political Science Research at the same faculty. He is an associate researcher at the University of Edinburgh, School of Law, where he acts as a country expert for citizenship. His research interests include citizenship concepts, debates and regimes, new modes of governance, parliamentary cohesion, electoral studies, political marketing, youth, gender and civil society. He has authored or coauthored more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and sci-entific volumes and 7 scientific monographs. Past projects he worked on or coordinated were funded by the Slovenian research agency, the European Union's FP framework, European Science Foundation of the European Union, European Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency and various other national agencies. E-mail: (Tomaz.Dezelan /at/ fdv.uni-lj.si)

Deadlines

    * July 1, 2014: submission of abstracts and intentions of participation
    * July 15, 2014: notification of acceptance
    * August 1, 2014: registration - click here
    * September 18-21, 2014: conference
    * November 1, 2014: submission of final versions of the papers

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Bogdan Patrut,
(bogdan /at/ edusoft.ro)

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Bogdan Patrut
PhD in Computer Science, PhD in Accounting
Associate Professor at Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania
Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Education Sciences
Tel. 0040728882288, E-mail: (bogdan /at/ edusoft.ro)
Web: http://www.edusoft.ro/bogdan
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bpatrut

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