[ecrea] cfp: JITP 2011: The Future of Computational Social Science

>JITP 2011: The Future of Computational Social Science
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>May 16 & 17, 2011 at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
>
>The 3rd annual, two-day Journal of Information Technology & Politics 
>(JITP) thematic conference will be in Seattle, Washington, 
>coordinated by the Department of Political Science and the Center 
>for American Politics and Public Policy (CAPPP) at the University of 
>Washington.
>
>APPROACH
>
>Computational social science is an emergent field and source of new 
>theoretical and methodological innovation for social science more 
>broadly. Multidisciplinary teams of social and computer scientists 
>are increasingly common in the lab and at workshops where 
>cross-fertilization occurs in the areas of theory, data, methods, 
>and tools. Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary work is becoming more 
>common as the computational tools and techniques of computer science 
>are being used by social scientists. Previously, large-scale 
>computational processing was the purview of expensive, 
>university-centric computing labs. Now, with the democratization of 
>technology, universities and for-profit firms increasingly provide 
>large amounts of inexpensive computing power to researchers and 
>citizens alike.
>
>It is the potential of these new computational technologies and 
>related Web-based platforms for research, politics, and governance 
>that led to the creation of the Journal of Information Technology & 
>Politics. Previous special issues on "Text Annotation for Political 
>Science" 5(1), "Politics: Web 2.0" 6(3/4), "YouTube and the 2008 
>Election Cycle in the United States" 7(2/3), and "The Politics of 
>Open Source" (in production) have focused the attention of 
>researchers on the expansive new landscape of digital democracy as 
>well as the architecture and tools that underpin it.
>
>In their 2009 Science article, David Lazer and colleagues 
>highlighted some of the future challenges for scholars working in 
>this area. "Computational social science could become the exclusive 
>domain of private companies and government agencies. Alternatively, 
>there might emerge a privileged set of academic researchers 
>presiding over private data from which they produce papers that 
>cannot be critiqued or replicated. Neither scenario will serve the 
>long-term public interest of accumulating, verifying, and 
>disseminating knowledge." Luckily, the phenomenon of computational 
>social science is distributed so widely and found in such variety 
>that these scenarios are unlikely. The trends towards openness and 
>data and tool sharing are notable breakthroughs in a sphere where 
>proprietary approaches dominate. Data, method, and tool transparency 
>are increasingly watchwords for governments and researchers.
>
>With this background in mind, we invite a wide range of paper 
>submissions on the future of computational social science. 
>Submissions may include, but are not limited to:
>
>* Applications of information theory to social science research
>* Methodologies and tools for studying users and information on 
>social media services
>* Projects featuring novel uses of computer assisted qualitative 
>data analysis software
>* Large-scale empirical analysis and modeling
>* Web technologies and data mining
>* Interdisciplinary methodologies in collaborative research
>* Pedagogical issues in computational social science
>* Computer simulations in political science education and training
>* Concepts from social sciences enhanced by computation, such as 
>social network analysis
>* Innovation in socio-technical network and infrastructure analysis
>
>PAPER SUBMISSIONS
>
>Authors are invited to prepare and submit to JITP a research paper, 
>policy viewpoint, workbench note, or teaching innovation manuscript 
>by January 1, 2011. Proposals for full panel presentations will also 
>be accepted. Please contact the conference manager to discuss 
>panels. Papers accepted for publication will be invited to revise 
>and resubmit their articles for publication in a special issue, or 
>double issue, of JITP.
>
>Authors should "establish membership" at the JITP website, 
><http://www.jitp.net>http://www.jitp.net, to submit a paper. Follow 
>the instructions for regular article submissions, being sure to 
>indicate that the paper is for JITP2011 in the comments section.
>
>Papers will be put through an expedited, blind peer review process 
>by the Program Committee, and authors will be notified about a 
>decision by March 1, 2011. A small number of papers will be accepted 
>for presentation at the conference. Other paper authors will be 
>invited to present a poster during an evening reception.
>
>BEST PAPER AND POSTER CASH PRIZES
>
>The author (or authors) of the best research paper will receive a 
>cash prize. The creator (or creators) of the best poster/research 
>presentation will also receive a cash prize.
>
>PROGRAM COMMITTEE
>
>Gil ad Ariely, Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy, 
>Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
>Paul M. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology
>David M. Berry, Swansea University, UK.
>Chris Bronk, Rice University
>Jana Diesner, Carnegie Mellon University
>Muzammil M. Hussain, University of Washington
>Daniel Katz, Fellow, University of Michigan, Center for the Study of 
>Complex Systems
>Jacob Groshek, Iowa State University
>Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne
>Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech
>Georgios Lappas, Technological Educational Institution of Western 
>Macedonia, Greece
>Azi Lev-On, Ariel University Center
>Ignacio J. Martinez-Moyano, Argonne National Laboratory and the 
>University of Chicago
>Bruce Neubauer, Albany State University
>Andre Oboler, Monash University, Australia
>Justin Reedy, University of Washington
>Joseph W. Roberts, Roger Williams University
>Scott Robertson, University of Hawaii
>Derek Ruths, McGill University
>Chirag Shah, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
>Mack Shelley, Iowa State University
>Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, co-chair
>Anas Tawileh, Cardiff University, UK
>John Wilkerson, University of Washington, co-chair
>
>
>---
>
>Dr. David M. Berry
>Department of Political and Cultural Studies
>Room JC015
>James Callaghan Building
>Swansea University
>Singleton Campus
>Swansea
>SA2 8PP
>
>Tel: 01792 602633
>
><http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/>http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/
>

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