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Privacy, Trust Management and Security

March 25th, 2008

Congiuntamente alla IFIPTM 08 - Joint iTrust and PST Conference, il 17 giugno 2008 a Trondheim in Norvegia 

si terrà una conferenza su Privacy, Trust Management and Security.

Citando dall’invito:

Trust is a vital issue in mobile computing if applications are to support interactions which will carry data of any significance. Consider, for instance, exploring a market place: which vendors should one prefer, and why; how can a user establish the provenance of an item, etc. Various trust models have been developed in recent years to enable the construction of trust-aware applications. However, it is still not clear how robust these models are, and against what types of attacks; how accurate they are in capturing human characteristics and dynamics of trust; how suitable they are to the mobile setting. Mobility brings in orthogonal complexities to the problem of trust management: for example, the transient relationships with the environment and other users calls for an investigation of the dependency between trust and context; the lack of a clear shared control authority makes it difficult to verify identities, and to follow-up problems later; the limited network capability and ad-hoc connectivity require the investigation of novel protocols for content sharing and dissemination, and so on.

This workshop seeks to explore the issue of trust modelling and management in mobile computing, integrating issues from computational theory to sociological implications, from systems implementation to usability. This workshop aims to:

  • Enable the sharing of current understandings and new findings
  • Facilitate the exchange of ideas and concepts arising from different approaches, thus informing each other and identifying new possibilities and problems
  • Provide a forum for discussing alternative approaches and for researchers to form new contacts

Per approfondire:

http://time08.cs.ucl.ac.uk/index.html

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Web 2.0: Dalle tecnologie alla presenza sociale (e ritorno)

February 11th, 2008

Roboante, non c’è che dire!
È il titolo dell’incontro di stasera (dalle 18.00), presso il Negozio civico ChiamaMilano, in Largo Corsia dei Servi, 11 (MI).

Si tratta del secondo incontro di un ciclo di 4 incontri-caffescienza, organizzati dal Laboratorio di Informatica Civica dell’Università degli Studi di Milano e da Caffescienzamilano.
Parleremo di Web 2.0, le sue tecnologie, e come questi temi si riflettano sulle dinamiche sociali/psicosociali in rete.

Per chi fosse interessato, su slideshare trovate le slides (del tutto inutili, senza lo speech, temo).

Mentre questo è il link al calendario degli eventi: Internet e le nuove interazioni sociali.

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The Succession of Simulacra

February 7th, 2008

Il 18 ed il 19 apriel si terrà, a Santa Barbara, presso l’UC, una conferenza dedicata a Jean Baudrillard, scomparso recentemente.

Per chi fosse interessato, qui sotto il testo della call:

The recent death of Jean Baudrillard has stimulated an engagement with his work and its legacy across various fields both within academia and beyond it. As seen in the recent “Remembering Baudrillard” issue of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, his ideas continue to foster productive discussion.

Many of Baudrillard’s terms and concepts, “hyperrality,” “simulacra,” “alibi” and “the code” continue to proliferate in not only theoretical, but popular texts as well. Whether or not we accept their validity, how can we apply, transform, refigure, critique and salvage these ideas?

What has his work fostered in the different modes of critical theory: social scientific, cultural, literary, technological, popular, communication and new media theory?

We invite papers engaging the future of this discussion.

How do we succeed Baudrillard?

How should his work and thought be disseminated, disintegrated, dispersed, and employed?

We welcome papers responding (but not limited) to the following topics:

  • Simulacra and Second Life
  • The Evil Demons of Images and the Materiality of Text
  • The Empire Strikes Back: American Intervention in Iraq
  • The Desert and the Real: Mediating Iraq
  • Mirror(s) of Production
  • Consumer Culture
  • Baudrillard Broadly: Influences, Allusions, Legacy
  • Stockpiling the Past
  • The Metaphysic of the Code
  • The Evil Genie of Passion
  • The Historicity of Postmodernism
  • Universalization, Globalization and Technological Progress
  • The Desert of the Matrix: Misreading Baudrillard
  • Advertising and the Ecology of Media
  • Guerrilla Graffiti Art

Please send a 250 word abstract as well as brief biographical information to David Roh at roh@umail.ucsb.edu.

Deadline for submission:

Monday, February 18th

Per approfondimenti:

http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/baudrillard/

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Call for Paper: Knowledge Construction in E-learning Context

February 5th, 2008

  Questa conferenza, con un sottottitolo che sembra uno scioglilingua (cscl, odl, ict and sna in education), si terrà Cesena, l’1 e 2 di settembre 2008.Knoledge Construction in e-learning

La call, che scade il 4 maggio,  invita paper che riguardino (riporto pari pari):

  • Knowledge acquisition in e-learning and the role of ICT in education
  • Collaborative knowledge construction in education context and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
  • ICT issues and emerging technologies in education
  • Digital divide and social inclusion through ICT

Per ulteriori informazioni, è disponibile il sito: 

http://minerva.ing2.unibo.it

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SW/Texas PCA/ACA: Video and Computer Game Studies

October 1st, 2007

Video and Computer Game Studies
Computer Culture Area
The 29th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/.

The Computer Culture Area of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association welcomes paper, panel, and
other proposals in video and computer game studies. For Paper Proposals:

Please submit 250 word abstract embedded in the body of an email.
Include contact information (e.g., postal and preferred email address,
phone and fax numbers, etc.) and a biographical note about your
connection to the topic.

For Panel and Other Proposals:

Feel free to query first. Panel and other proposals should include
all of the information requested for individual paper proposals, as
well as a 100-word statement of the panel’s raison d’etre and any
noteworthy organizational features.

As always, proposals are welcome from any and all scholars, including
graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track,
and emeritus faculty. Also, unusual formats, technologies, and the
like are encouraged.

Send proposals by November 15, 2007 to:

Judd Ruggill
School of Media Arts
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
jruggill at email.arizona.edu

Deadline For Submissions: 15 November 2007

Website: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

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MediaCamp BUCKS 07

August 27th, 2007

Cut&pasted from: http://achubbucks.pbwiki.com/

What is MediaCamp BUCKS 07? -  It’s an UnConference with a strong educational flavour for gamers, bloggers, casts, and new media professionals & amateurs for one day to share, explore, challenge, and grow our abilities in new media. Learn about audio and video podcasting, blogging, photography, Second Life, Twitter, and all kinds of other new and social media tools. Whether you’re a veteran or interested in getting started, MediaCamp is for YOU.


Mission:

Provide a forum for the networking of colleagues and peers who have dedicated their careers to new-media, with a goal of representing a large and diverse community of interests and experience.

Facilitate information exchange on issues that relate to creative business, technology embracing, advertising, new-media skills training and industry related education.

Provide a platform for: industry events, seminars, web 2.0 information exchange, web-based information outlets and professional special interest groups dedicated to specific skills and areas of expertise.



When?

Friday 19 Evening - Social get together in local venue

Saturday 20 October 07 (entry on upcoming.org - useful for calendar reminders: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/190813/)


Where?


Buckinghamshire Chilterns University, England, UK

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SITE 2008

August 24th, 2007

Dal sito ufficiale:

SITE 2008 is the 19th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education and faculty/staff development. SITE is a society of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

SITE is unique as the only organization which has as its sole focus the integration of instructional technologies into teacher education programs. SITE promotes the development and dissemination of theoretical knowledge, conceptual research, and professional practice knowledge through conferences, books, projects, and the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE).

You are invited to attend and participate in this annual international forum which offer numerous opportunities to share your ideas, explore the research, development, and applications, and to network with the leaders in this important field of teacher education and technology. 

PRESENTATION CATEGORIES:

http://site.aace.org/conf/categories.htm

The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. These include keynote and invited talks, paper presentations, roundtables, poster/demonstrations, tutorials/workshops, panels, and corporate showcases.

PROCEEDINGS:

http://www.EdITLib.org

Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Technology and Teacher Education Annual proceedings series. Books in this series serve as major source documents indicating the current state of teacher education and information technology. This proceedings will be published as a searchable electronic book on CD-ROM.

The Annuals are internationally distributed through and archived in the Education and Information Technology Digital Library, http://www.EdITLib.org.

First and second paper authors are limited to two papers published in the Annual.

PAPER AWARDS:

http://site.aace.org/pubs/

All presented papers will be considered for Best Paper Awards within several categories.

DEADLINES:

  • Proposals Due: Oct. 22, 2007
  • Authors Notified: Nov. 21, 2007
  • Proceedings File Due: Jan. 21, 2008
  • Early Registration: Jan. 21, 2008
  • Hotel Reservation: Feb. 11, 2008
  • Conference: Mar. 3-7, 2008

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