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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>*Apologies for cross-posting*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>DGI-Conference 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>European Afternoon, 22 March 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx" title="blocked::http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx"><span lang=EN-GB>http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>*Social Media and Web Science*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>*The Web as a Living Space*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Co-located with the 2nd DGI-Conference and 64. Annual Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>22 and 23 March 2012, Düsseldorf/Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Twitter hashtag: #dgi2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>(For those of you who speak German the Call for Papers for the main DGI-Conference might also be of interest: <a href="http://www.dgd.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz.aspx">http://www.dgd.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz.aspx</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>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”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The conference will cover topics such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Social Media<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Collaborative and collective information services (e.g. social bookmarking, social networking, wikis) </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Information retrieval for the Social Web, social search </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Knowledge representation for the social web (social tagging and folksonomies) </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Social Semantic Web </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Social software use cases & policies (e.g. corporate social software, social media for research, in e-learning environments, in libraries) </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Enterprise 2.0: knowledge management with social media </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Social analytics, metrics for social media </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Market research and trend monitoring </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Communities of practice and user networks </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Web-economy, new business models </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Linked Data and Open Data on the Social Web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Web Science<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Characteristics and structures of communication on the Web (e.g. blogs, microblogging) </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Information literacy and didactics for information science </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Measuring information behaviour, e.g. for particular target groups </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Visualization of data structures, networks and information </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Science and the Internet: eScience, digital humanities, scientific communication, eLearning </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Game studies, serious games and browser-based games </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Digital libraries </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> The digital divide, accessibility and usability of information on the Web </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Emotions on the Web </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Legal dimensions of Web usage, trust and privacy, cybercrime </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> eGovernment, eGovernance & eDemocracy </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> eActivism & eProtest (e.g. Guttenplag-Wiki, Wikileaks) </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Crowdsourcing (e.g. for politics, in science, in business) </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Mobile Web and location based services </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>●</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Webometrics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>We particularly welcome interdisciplinary approaches for Web research!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>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 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx" title="blocked::http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx"><span lang=EN-GB>http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>. Accepted papers will have to be presented during the conference and will be published in the printed conference proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Submission of full papers: 31.08.2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Notification of acceptance: 21.11.2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Submission of camera-ready (revised) versions: 21.12.2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Programme Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Programme Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Katrin Weller & Isabella Peters (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Organiser<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) / German Society of Information Science and Information Practice Windmühlstraße 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Fon +49 (0)69 430313<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Fax +49 (0)69 4909096<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>e-mail: <a href="mailto:mail@dgi-info.de">mail@dgi-info.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="www.dgi-info.de" title="blocked::www.dgi-info.de">www.dgi-info.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Contact<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Nadja Strein</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>