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[Isabella Peters]

Early bird registration until February 20th: DGI-Conference 2012 ?Social Media
& Web Science?. European Afternoon on March 22nd, Düsseldorf Germany.


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Early bird registration ends February 20th, 2012!

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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
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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: mail at dgi-info.de
www.dgi-info.de

CONTACT
Nadja Strein



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