*Apologies for cross-posting*


Due to various requests we have decided to extend the deadline for 
papers submissions for the DGI-Conference 2012 until

15th September 2011!




DGI-Conference 2012: SOCIAL MEDIA & WEB SCIENCE - THE WEB AS A LIVING SPACE

Main Conference (in German), 22 and 23 March 2012: 
http://www.dgd.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz.aspx

European Afternoon (in English), 22 March 2012: 
http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx

Düsseldorf/Germany

Twitter hashtag: #dgi2012


The upcoming DGI-Conference, hosted by the German Society of Information 
Science and Information Practice, will take place on March 22nd and 23rd 
in Düsseldorf, Germany. DGI-Conference continues the long tradition of 
annual meetings by the DGI, being held regularly since its foundation in 
1948. This time, the conference topic is "Social Media & Web Science".

While the presentations of the main conference will be held in German, 
it is planned to also organize a special research track in English 
language. This "European Afternoon" will take place on March 22nd. We 
would like to welcome researchers and practitioners interested in the 
social dimensions of Web developments and information technologies, e.g. 
from the fields of information science, library and documentation 
science, computer science, digital humanities, linguistics, psychology, 
political science, law and economics.

The conference will cover topics such as:

SOCIAL MEDIA

- Collaborative and collective information services (e.g. social 
bookmarking, social networking, wikis) 
- Information retrieval for the Social Web, social search 
- Knowledge representation for the social web (social tagging and folksonomies) 
- Social Semantic Web 
- Social software use cases & policies (e.g. corporate social software, social 
media for research, in e-learning environments, in libraries) 
- Enterprise 2.0: knowledge management with social media 
- Social analytics, metrics for social media 
- Market research and trend monitoring 
- Communities of practice and user networks 
- Web-economy, new business models 
- Linked Data and Open Data on the Social Web


WEB SCIENCE

- Characteristics and structures of communication on the Web (e.g. 
blogs, microblogging) 
- Information literacy and didactics for information science 
- Measuring information behaviour, e.g. for particular target groups 
- Visualization of data structures, networks and information 
- Science and the Internet: eScience, digital humanities, scientific communication, eLearning 
- Game studies, serious games and browser-based games
- Digital libraries 
- The digital divide, accessibility and usability of information on the Web 
- Emotions on the Web 
- Legal dimensions of Web usage, trust and privacy, cybercrime
- eGovernment, eGovernance & eDemocracy
- eActivism & eProtest (e.g. Guttenplag-Wiki, Wikileaks)
- Crowdsourcing (e.g. for politics, in science, in business)
- Mobile Web and location based services 
- Webometrics

We particularly welcome interdisciplinary approaches for Web research!


SUBMISSIONS

You can submit scientific research papers of up to 36,000 characters in 
length (including spaces). Please use the APA style for formatting your 
references. Additional information and a link to a conference management 
tool for uploading your submission will be provided on 
http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx. Accepted papers 
will have to be presented during the conference and will be published in 
the printed conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of full papers: 15.09.2011

Notification of acceptance: 21.11.2011

Submission of camera-ready (revised) versions: 21.12.2011



PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Programme Chairs:

Katrin Weller & Isabella Peters (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)

ORGANISER

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und 
Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) / German Society of Information Science 
and Information Practice Windmühlstraße 3

60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Fon +49 (0)69 430313

Fax +49 (0)69 4909096

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www.dgi-info.de

Contact

Nadja Strein




-- 
Dr. Katrin Weller
Institute for Language and Information
Department of Information Science
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1, Building 23.21.04.68
D-40225 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 (0) 211 81 10803
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