- Apologies for cross-posting -


We're still looking forward to interesting submissions from all
disziplines that investigate the Web and its role in society.
The main conference will be in German (see
http://www.dgd.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz.aspx) but will include the
European Afternoon - in English.



DGI-CONFERENCE 2012 - EUROPEAN AFTERNOON
22 March 2012

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SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB SCIENCE

The Web as a Living Space
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Co-located with the 2nd DGI-Conference and 64. Annual Meeting
22 and 23 March 2012
Düsseldorf/Germany

View the complete call for papers at:
http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx
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: 31.08.2011
Notification of acceptance: 21.11.2011
Submission of camera-ready (revised) versions: 21.12.2011


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

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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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