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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS -
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND THE INTERNET (cosci12)


DATE: August 1-3, 2012
LOCATION: Düsseldorf, Germany
CONTACT PERSON: Alexander Tokar
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WEB SITE: http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/cosci12
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 15, 2012

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CONFERENCE TOPICS
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Online media have brought about numerous changes in scholarly practices,
including, but not limited to gathering data, finding relevant
literature, making research and results accessible, organising
collaboration, communicating with colleagues and students as well as
creating fruitful learning environments.

The interdisciplinary conference "Science and the Internet", to be held
August 1-3, 2012 in Düsseldorf, brings together researchers and
practitioners from multiple disciplines (e.g. information science,
computer science, sociology, communication and media studies,
linguistics, educations studies, legal studies, etc.) working on the
following or related issues:

How is the research process transformed through the use of digital
infrastructures?

How can the challenges of the public availability of (large scale)
scientific data be met?

How do scholars make use of social networking platforms, (micro-)blogs,
wikis, or websites?

How does the Internet affect scholarly publishing (e.g. Open Access,
unpublished manuscripts, blogs)?

How has the Internet changed the practice and relevance of citations and
of receiving reputation?

How do teaching styles or beliefs and use of the Internet mutually
influence each other?

Do Web 2.0 platforms offer opportunities to advance public understanding
of science?

What is the role of ethics, policies, and legal regulation in academic
use of the Internet?

What theoretical and practical implications do the aforementioned
considerations have for science and the Internet?

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The conference language is English. We invite two types of submissions:

Abstracts for talks (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for
discussion) should not exceed 500 words, excluding data and references.
In case of acceptance a full paper (max. 3.000 words or 12 pages) in
either English or German must be submitted by July 15, 2012. The full
paper will be published in conference proceedings (print and online).

Proposals for interactive workshops (90 minutes) should outline both the
thematic focus and the session design. Workshops should engage
participants in developing the topics. Proposals should not exceed 1.000
words.

Both abstracts for presentations and proposals for interactive workshops
must be submitted via EasyChair.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for submitting abstracts: January 15, 2012

Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012

Camera-ready submission of papers: July 15, 2012

Conference dates: August 1-3, 2012

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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The conference is organized by the interdisciplinary Junior Researchers
Group "Science and the Internet" (http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/) at
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf:

Michael Beurskens (legal studies)
Susanne Keuneke (communication and media studies)
Merja Mahrt (communication and media studies)
Cornelius Puschmann (English linguistics)
Isabella Peters (information science)
Alexander Tokar (English linguistics)
Timo van Treeck (education studies)
Katrin Weller (information science)





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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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