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Workshop on Computer Mediated Social Sense-Making
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14th February 2013

Position statements due 18th January 2012 (See below)

School of Informatics
Edinburgh University.

‘Computer Mediated Social Sense-Making’  is a specialised form of Social Computation [1] that pertains where diverse non co-located human expertise and machine processing are combined to enable [...]

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Workshop – Ethical Issues and Social Responsibility in Serious Games – 21st January 2013, Tapestry Room, Firth Court, University of Sheffield; 10:00-16:30 

We are organising a FREE get-together of researchers in the UK in the field of serious games to consider the Ethical Issues in developing Serious Games. Those with an interest in ethical [...]

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Digital methodologies for social research on processes of urban landscape development

ACUMEN will be hosted by the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP), School of Geography, University of Leeds. It is funded by Digital Social Research Community Activities Funding Scheme of the NSDeSS, with the support of TALISMAN: Geospatial Data Analysis and Simulation.

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This workshop will focus on the emergence and continuing evolution of new kinds of information infrastructures (IIs) in business, the corporate world and other settings. By connecting a growing number of systems and data, Information Infrastructures support user work in everyday life, but also bring about increased [...]

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Call for Papers

Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion

16th November 2012, Enterprise Centre, University of Derby

Organised by the Centre for Society, Religion & Belief (SRB), University of Derby

 Funded by Digital Social Research (DSR)

 

Within an era of a growing reliance on digital technologies [...]

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Digital Research 2012

10-12 September 2012
St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK

digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk

Digital Research 2012 is being held in St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, 10-12 September 2012. We have an exciting 3-day programme including New Science of New Data, Smart Spaces, Open Science, Web Archiving, the launch of the Software Sustainability Institute’s Fellows programme and [...]

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This new call from the ESRC will be of interest to many in the Digital Social Research Community:

Call Launch Workshop for Google Data Analytics Social Science Research

Location:Google, 76 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9TQ
Date: 14.00-16.00, 7 August 2012

Rt. Hon. France Maude, “Data is the new raw material of the 21st [...]

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Digital Research 2012

10-12 September 2012
St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK

digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk

Digital Research 2012 is being held in St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, 10-12 September 2012. We have an exciting 3-day programme including New Science of New Data, Smart Spaces, Open Science, Web Archiving,  Cybersecurity and responsible digital research – plus the launch of [...]

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III Call For Papers Final
Innovation in Information Infrastructures (III) Workshop
9th – 11th October 2012 The University of Edinburgh Business School
29 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, UK Rationale
This workshop will focus on the emergence and continuing evolution of
new kinds of information infrastructures (IIs) in business, [...]

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PhD Studentship Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT De Montfort University – Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, Faculty of Technology

STARTING OCTOBER 2012

A PhD research studentship covering stipend and tuition fee costs within the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, (Faculty of Technology) working with an internationally recognised research team is available to [...]

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