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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Early bird registration ends February 20th, 2012! ---------------------------------------------------------------- DGI-CONFERENCE 2012 - EUROPEAN AFTERNOON 22 March 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB SCIENCE The Web as a Living Space Co-located with the 2nd DGI-Conference and 64. Annual Meeting March 22 and 23, 2012 and with DIATA12 - Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis, March 21, 2012 Düsseldorf/Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- View the complete conference programme at: http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=288&Itemid=122 Register here: http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=302&Itemid=129 Twitter hashtag: #dgi2012 We are happy to announce following keynotes: * Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton & Web Science Trust): presentation title to be announced * Imogen Levy (Westminster Abbey): How Westminster Abbey created world-wide audience engagement around the royal wedding with online and social media. Topical foci of the European Afternoon are: * Social Media Platforms & Models * E-Learning & Knowledge Distribution * Politics 2.0 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, there is also 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. Previous to the main conference, the #DIATA12 workshop (Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis) will be held on March 21st, 2012. There a no registration fees for #DIATA12, but a registration via email is required. Details can be found at http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/diata12. 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 e-mail: [log in to unmask] www.dgi-info.de CONTACT Nadja Strein + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + DLNET list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DLNET + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +