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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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