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Call for Papers: The 7th Annual PhD Conference: The Non-Financial Crisis: Politics, Media and Culture in the Present Economic Context 31 May, 2013, Leeds

The 7th Annual PhD Conference
The Institute of Communications Studies
University of Leeds

The Non-Financial Crisis: Politics, Media and Culture in the Present Economic Context
31 May, 2013, Leeds

The recent financial crisis that caused the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and the struggle of national and trans-national governments in tackling the crisis, has signalled the need for fundamental changes in economic and political systems.

In this conference we hope to interrogate the various aspects of the crisis. These aspects span beyond economic considerations to broader issues related to socio-political systems, media and cultural production. Almost all fields are affected by the crisis and forced to change. The changes in these fields are interdependent and will have important implications for our future. With this aim in mind we invite submissions which could address any of the following questions or investigate related issues:

1. Politics

How is the crisis changing the way leaders appeal to audiences?
How has the crisis influenced political agendas?
How have governments been dealing with the communication of the crisis?
Has the crisis brought about new forms of political action?
Is the economic crisis encouraging citizen participation?
Is it still possible for the public sphere to influence national government in times of transnational crisis?
Has the crisis in anyway influenced the legitimacy of transnational institutions?

2. Media and Journalism

How has the media represented the crisis?
What are the challenges for communicating the crisis?
Have journalistic practices changed due to the influence of the crisis?
How have the economic crisis and budget cuts influenced media production?
Have new media changed the way news is produced and distributed during crisis?
Will the media play a different role in society after the crisis?
Has new media been shrinking or expanding disparity between the North and the South during the crisis?

3. Culture

Cultural labour and value creation: what impact has the crisis had on the dynamic between creative autonomy and market imperatives?
Are the creative industries more resilient to the impact of the economic crisis than traditional manufacturing industries?
What might the implications be of public subsidy cuts for culture and the cultural labour market?
What roles can the cultural and creative industries play in promoting job creation and economic growth?
Could the cultural industries play a real and significant role in the development and adoption of new socioeconomic models?
Where does the culture industry debate lie today: what have been the effects of the commodification of culture?
What is art’s relationship to social change? Is there legitimate faith in the autonomy of art as bound to the promise of a better world to come?
What might be the outcomes of the economic crisis for European culture?

Please email 250-300 word abstract, with any institutional affiliation and brief biography, to the following email address by March 1, 2013 (earlier submissions welcome):

ics-pg-conference@leeds.ac.uk

This call for papers is also available online: http://www.ics-phd-conference.leeds.ac.uk/

Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM’2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM’2013)
Mining, Modeling and Recommending “Things” in Social Media

http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2013/
to be held on May 1, 2013, Paris, France
co-located with ACM Hypertext 2013

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: Feb 04, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: Feb 18, 2013
Final Papers Due: February 28, 2013
Workshop date: May 1, 2013

In our first workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2010 in Toronto, Canada), we explored various different models of social media ranging from user modeling, hypertext models, software engineering models, sociological models and framework models. In our second workshop (MSM 2011 in Boston, USA), we addressed the user interface aspects of modeling social media. In our third workshop (MSM 2012 in Milwaukee, USA), we looked at the collective intelligence in social media, i.e. making sense of the content and context from social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Foursquare by analyzing tweets, tags, blog posts, likes, posts and check-ins, in order to create a new knowledge and semantic meaning. With this year’s workshop we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the field of social media mining, modeling and end-user applications. In particular, we would like to invite researchers working on the important field of “recommender systems” for social media which is gaining more and more in importance due to the increasing information overload problem.

The goal of this workshop is to continue our vibrant discussion on social media mining and modelling with a special focus on recommender systems for social media applications. Hence, the workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of social media mining, modelling and doing recommendations on top of these data/models. In short the workshop invites topics such as social media mining methods/techniques, novel approaches to model users or things in social media, frameworks to harvest and/or display social media data and new social media recommender methods/techniques/algorithms or interfaces supporting users for instance in information finding, meta-data application etc. Thus, our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from all over the world with diverse backgrounds interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to mine (complex) and analyse social media data, 2) modelling social media users and 3) building applications such as recommender systems on top of this data/models.

We invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to:

novel mining methods/techniques or approaches for social media
novel approaches to model users or things in social media
novel frameworks to harvest and/or display social media data
novel recommender methods/techniques/algorithms or interfaces to recommend “things” to people in social media
new visualisation approaches for recommender systems in social media
evaluation methods/techniques/reports for mining/modelling or recommending things/people in social media
privacy and security issues or constraints in social media mining/modelling and recommendations
scalability issues of mining, modelling and recommending people/things/etc. in social media
novel (social media) datasets (incl. a detailed description) which are of potential interest for researchers all over the world working in the field of social media mining/modelling/analytics and/or recommender systems

Submissions: We solicit short position papers (1-2 pages) and peer-reviewed research papers (4-8 pages) in the ACM conference paper style.

Please submit your papers using the EasyChair system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2013.

If you have any questions regarding the workshop or the submission, please email msm2013@googlegroups.com.

Workshop Organizers:

Alvin Chin, Nokia, Beijing
Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany
Christoph Trattner, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Program Committee:

Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Robin Burke, de Paul, USA
Javier Luis Canovas, Izquierdo INRIA, France
Ed Chi, Google, USA
Padraig Cunningham, University College Dublin, Ireland
Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research, USA
Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany
Geert-Jan Houben, TU-Delft, Netherlands
Alexander Felfernig, TU-Graz, Austria
Jill Freyne, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia
Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK
Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica, Spain
Florian Lemmerich, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin, Germany
Else Nygren, Uppsala University, Sweden
Denis Parra, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Haggai Roitman, IBM Research, Israel
Alan Said, TU- Berlin, Germany
James She, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Markus Strohmaier, TU Graz, Austria
Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, Austria
Zhiyong Yu, Institut Telecom Sud de Paris, France
Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA

Proceedings: All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published in the ACM Digital library

Call for Papers: Studium ohne Abitur – Studium und Berufsverlauf nicht-traditioneller Studierender

Call for Papers

Studium ohne Abitur:
Studium und Berufsverlauf nicht-traditioneller Studierender

Fachtagung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen und Forscher/innen
am 12. – 13. September 2013 an der Universität Hamburg
Von-Melle-Park 8, 20146 Hamburg

Der demographische Wandel und die Bedeutungszunahme von Wissen stellen neue Anforderungen an Gesellschaft und Arbeitnehmer. Im Zuge dessen fordern Bildungspolitiker auf nationaler und europäischer Ebene die Öffnung der Hochschulen für Berufstätige und damit verbunden höhere Durchlässigkeit zwischen Bildungssystem und Arbeitsmarkt. Auf diese Weise soll dem drohenden Fachkräftemangel entgegengewirkt und die Aufwärtsmobilität der Arbeitnehmer verbessert werden. Infolge dieses Politikwechsels rücken „nicht-traditionelle Studierende“, also Studierende ohne Abitur, in den Mittelpunkt der bildungspolitischen und wissenschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit.

Der Anteil nicht-traditioneller Studierender ist in den letzten Jahren nahezu beständig gestiegen und liegt in Deutschland derzeit bei 1,9 Prozent der Studienanfänger/innen. Eine zentrale Rolle dabei spielt der Beschluss der Kultusministerkonferenz (2009), durch den die Landeshochschulgesetze entsprechend modifiziert wurden. Seither können erfolgreiche Teilnehmer von beruflichen Aufstiegsfortbildungen (z.B. Meister), aber auch beruflich Qualifizierte die allgemeine oder fachgebundene Hochschulzugangsberechtigung erhalten, oftmals nach Bestehen einer universitätsinternen Aufnahmeprüfung. Weitestgehend unklar ist dabei jedoch, welche Gruppen von diesen Möglichkeiten Gebrauch machen und welche Konsequenzen sich für den Berufsverlauf ergeben.

Die Fachtagung soll dazu dienen, neue Erkenntnisse zur a) Definition und Zusammensetzung der Gruppe der „nicht-traditionellen Studierenden“, ihren Motiven zur Studienaufnahme, Studienfachwahl, Studienverlauf und -erfolg sowie b) Konsequenzen in Bezug auf den weiteren Berufsverlauf, soziale Ungleichheit und beruflich-soziale Mobilität zu diskutieren. Dabei interessieren wir uns sowohl für theoretische Ansätze als auch für empirische Arbeiten, die unter anderem folgende Fragen behandeln:

Trägt die Öffnung der Hochschulen zur Erhöhung der Durchlässigkeit zwischen den Bildungssystemen bei?
Welchen Einfluss hat die soziale Herkunft auf die individuellen Studienaspirationen und – motivationen nicht-traditioneller und traditioneller Studierender?
Unterscheiden sich die Bildungs- und Studierpraktiken zwischen den beiden Studierendengruppen?
Welche Auswirkungen hat ein Hochschulabschluss hinsichtlich der sozial-beruflichen Mobilität von Absolventen ohne und mit Abitur?
Wie unterscheiden sich die Berufsverläufe von Hochschulabsolventen mit und ohne Abitur?

Der CfP richtet sich sowohl an Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen als auch an etablierte Forscher/innen der Soziologie, Sozialwissenschaften und angrenzenden Disziplinen, die sich mit „nicht-traditionellen“ Studierenden beschäftigen.

Im zweiten Schwerpunkt – beruflicher Verlauf von Absolventen ohne Abitur – freuen wir uns zudem über theoretische und empirische Beiträge von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen und Forscher/innen, die in themennahen Gebieten, zu Fragen der Berufsmobilität, Bildungsprozessen im Lebensverlauf oder auch zur sozialen Ungleichheit am Übergang von der Hochschule auf den Arbeitsmarkt forschen.

Die finanzielle Förderung der Tagung durch die Körber-Fonds Nachwuchsförderung ermöglicht es uns, Zuschüsse zu Reise- und Übernachtungskosten der Vortragenden zu gewähren.

Vortragsangebote mit 1-seitigem Abstract werden bis zum

19. April 2013

per E-Mail erbeten an:

Dr. Tobias Brändle und Jessica Ordemann, M.A.
Professur für Makrosoziologie und Politische Soziologie, Fachbereich Sozialökonomie an der Universität Hamburg
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Call for Papers: Reflexivity – Advances in the Study of Organizational Change

Call for Papers for the

8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies Sub‐theme: Reflexivity – Advances in the Study of Organizational Change 10 ‐ 12 July 2013, University of Manchester

The purpose of this sub-theme is, among others, to discuss the conceptualization of reflexivity in processes of organizational and social change as well as the interplay between personal and institutional reflexivity. Deadline for abstract submission is February 24, 2013.

Further Information

Call for Papers: Conference on “Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital: Mechanisms, Conditions and Causality”, May 24-25, 2013 , Berlin

Call for Papers

Conference
“Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital: Mechanisms, Conditions and Causality”

Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) May 24 and 25, 2013

The debate on trust, cooperation, and civic engagement in ethnically diverse communities has proliferated rapidly over the last decade. Dozens of studies have been conducted, covering a variety of countries and levels of analysis, across a range of indicators of social capital, and using divergent operationalizations of diversity. The outcomes of these studies have been almost as varied as their research designs.

The time has come to draw up the balance, in order to identify both what we have learned, and what has remained unresolved. In doing so, we want to move beyond the somewhat dreary and inconclusive discussion of the mere absence or presence of correlations between diversity and social capital. More can be gained by focusing more closely on the causal mechanisms linking the two, and on moderating factors that point towards conditional effects of diversity.

In order to achieve this aim, we want to bring together leading scholars who carry out cutting-edge research on the mechanisms and conditions of diversity effects. For this two-day event, we invite about 20 scholars from several disciplines to present new and unpublished studies on the linkages between ethnic diversity and social capital.

If you would like to present your ongoing research on the mechanisms and conditions of diversity effects at the WZB, please submit your proposal until February 17, 2013 at http://www.wzb.eu/mad/call-for-papers.

In case of successful application, we cover travel expenses and accommodation in Berlin (based on economy fare and up to three nights of accommodation).

The confirmed list of speakers includes:
Dietlind Stolle, McGill University, and Miles Hewstone, University of Oxford (Keynote speakers); Peter Thisted Dinesen, University of Copenhagen; Frank Kalter, University of Mannheim; Karen Schönwälder, Sören Petermann and Jörg Hüttermann, MPIMMG Göttingen; Eric M. Uslaner, University of Maryland; Susanne Veit, WZB.

Conference organizers:
Ruud Koopmans, Bram Lancee, Merlin Schaeffer (WZB)

For further information, please contact jutta.hoehne@wzb.eu.

Call for Papers

REMINDER Call for Papers “Ableism, Racism and Conflicts of Participation and Inclusion in Society and the Labour Market”

REMINDER
Call for Papers
Ableism, Racism and Conflicts of Participation and Inclusion in Society and the Labour Market
International Conference on Linking Concepts of Critical Ableism and Racism Studies with Research on Conflicts of Participation – June 6-8, 2013

NEW DEADLINE
January 30th 2013 Abstract submission deadline

Network and Centre of Participation Research, University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. Marianne Pieper
Jamal Haji Mohammadi, Gesa Mayer, Till Telake

While anti-discrimination laws and the UN Disability Rights Convention provide legal guarantees anchoring the right to self-determination and inclusion in all sectors of society, these guarantees have yet to be realised in practice.

Central to this conference is the question of implementation of the rights of marginalised people to inclusion, self-determination and participation in society in general and especially in the labour market. The focus is on two central interconnected axes of difference, ableism and racism, which act as powerful social “ushers” in conjunction with other constructions of difference. Both “disability” and “migration background” are terms used colloquially and often understood as properties associated with individuals; however, what remains hidden is how they are the product of complex processes of construction. These processes can take on very different forms in different geopolitical contexts depending on the specific logics of economic valorisation as well as different political and technical conditions.

The aim of the conference is to discuss the creation of concepts as well as theoretical and methodological tools adequate to the task of analysing marginalisation and participation. An additional focus of the conference will be on the concept and practices of inclusion and a discussion of models, perspectives and policy options. The conference program is divided into three sections:

1. Theoretical and conceptual development

The aim is to explore new theoretical and methodological approaches to analysing processes of marginalisation by examining how ableism and racism interact with other axes of difference (gender, age, sexual orientation, class) in the context of specific economic conditions. How do logics of valorisation, production conditions and the labour market situation in contemporary neo-liberal economies relate to ableism, racism and other axes of difference?

2. Development of methodological perspectives / Discussion of new research designs

Creative and innovative methodologies will be presented for discussion. There will be an emphasis on theoretical concepts and research methods/research designs which neither comprehend people as simple emanations and materialisations of power logics and structures, nor view them as completely autonomous actors. The aim is rather to explore the potential offered by theoretical concepts and research designs from the fields of “neo- materialism” and complexity theory to escape the narrowness and aporias of social constructivist approaches.

3. Current empirical studies and reports from the field will be used as the basis for discussions of different forms of participation in the labour market and in everyday life.

a) Network activists will outline and discuss new perspectives and models as well as demands and opportunities for political intervention.
b) A panel discussion will allow network activists and scientists to debate new perspectives and models together with political decision-makers and representatives from business and the trade unions.

Important dates

January 30th 2013 Abstract submission deadline
March 3rd 2013 Abstract reviewed
March 4th – April 12th 2013 Early bird registration
May 15th 2013 Final deadline for registration
May 25th 2013 Full conference program published on-line

We invite colleagues from different countries and different disciplines within the social sciences. Please send your abstract (Limit 2000 characters, 250 words) to cepar@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

A Book Launch (or a special issue of an international journal) is in preparation.
Conference venue: University of Hamburg – Institute of Sociology – Network and Centre of Participation Research www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/cepar

If you have any questions please contact to: cepar@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Call for Papers: 2nd Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics

Key Facts

Date: March 18-20, 2013
Location: University of Potsdam
Organizers: Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos
Lecturers: Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick), Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas), Arno Riedl (Maastricht University)
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013
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About the Workshop

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics. The aim of the workshop is to give talented young researchers the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to study new developments in Empirical Economics.

Lecturers

The first lecture will be given by Arno Riedl on “Experimental Economics”. Riedl is Professor of Public Economics at Maastricht University. In his research he uses tools and methods of behavioural and experimental economics to investigate decision-making in a variety of social and economic situations. He has published in top journals in economics, biology, neuroscience and political science.

Sascha O. Becker will talk about “The Role of Education in Economic History”. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and Deputy Director of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). His research interests are in Education and Labour Economics, Public Economics and Economic History. His papers have appeared in international journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review.

The final lecture will be given by Daniel S. Hamermesh on “Research Advice for PhD Students”. Hamermesh is Sue Killam Professor in the Foundations of Economics at University Texas and Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway University of London. His research concentrates on time use, labour demand, discrimination and unusual applications of labour economics. He authored several seminal books and a wide array of articles in labour economics in the leading general and specialized economics journals.

Audience

The 2nd Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics is open to around 20 graduate students and post doctorates within three years after dissertation. Participants will be given the opportunity to present and discuss their own research in a poster session. We encourage all young researchers interested in Empirical Economics to apply.

Submission

Please submit your CV and a paper (or an extended abstract) by January 15, 2013 to workshop[at]empwifo.uni-potsdam.de.

There will be no workshop fees; travel and accommodation expenses have to be covered by the participants.

Call for Papers: Herbstworkshop der Kommission Personalwesen (VHB) 2013

Call for Papers zum

Herbstworkshop 2013 der Kommission Personalwesen 19. und 20.09.2013, Universität Hamburg

Der Herbstworkshop der Kommission Personalwesen soll die Vielfalt der aktuellen personal-wirtschaftlichen Forschung der Mitglieder der Kommission widerspiegeln. Wir bitten daher um die Einreichung des „besten“ personalwissenschaftlichen Beitrages ihrer derzeitigen Forschung. Willkommen sind sowohl theoretisch-konzeptionelle als auch empirische Beiträge. Diese können in den folgenden Kategorien eingereicht werden, wobei die Formatierungsrichtlinien der Zeitschrift für Personalwesen (ZfP) gelten:

Vollständige Beiträge bzw. „full paper“ (max. 25 Seiten)
Kurzberichte zu laufenden Projekten bzw. „work in progress“ (Abstract 1-2 Seiten)

Ausschlussfrist für die Einreichung der Beiträge und Kurzberichte ist der 31.05.2013. weitere Informationen – Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Field-Configuring Events as Arenas for Innovation and Learning

Call for papers for a special issue of Industry and Innovation on

“Field-Configuring Events as Arenas for Innovation and Learning“

The aim of this Special Issue is to analyze field-configuring events (FCEs) explicitly as arenas for innovation and learning from an interdisciplinary perspective. It aims to analyze the specific parameters that allow different kinds of FCEs to bring about novelty in different contexts and to specify the innovation and learning processes that take place at these dynamic arenas. The deadline for complete manuscript submissions is October 1, 2013. Further Information

Call for Papers: INAS 2013 in Stockholm

Call for Papers
for the 6th Analytical Sociology Conference – June 7 and 8, 2013 in Stockholm.

Organizers:

Peter Hedström, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
Jens Rydgren, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
Viktoria Spaiser, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
Clara Lindblom, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
Kim Jansson, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: 1st of February

Analytical sociology is an approach for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining societal phenomena such as social network structures, patterns of segregation, collectively shared and diffused cultural and/or political ideas or common ways of (inter-)acting in a society. It explains such phenomena not merely by relating them to other societal phenomena, but by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the phenomena were brought about. Parts of analytical sociology focus on action and interaction as the cogs and wheels of social processes, while others consider the dynamic social processes that these actions and interactions bring about.

We are delighted to announce that Thomas Schelling will give the keynote address of the conference. Thomas Schelling was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis. His models of segregation are widely cited and a continuing source of inspiration for analytical sociologists.

We welcome presentations using any qualitative or quantitative method that allows for the study of social mechanisms and the complex social dynamics they give rise to. In addition, we welcome purely theoretical papers dealing with central aspects of the explanatory approach of analytical sociology.

Abstracts (500 – 1000 words) should be sent to inas2013@iffs.se no later than the 1st of February 2013 and should contain the following elements:

1) title of the paper,
2) author(s) and their affiliation and e-mail address, and
3) brief summary of the paper.

Acceptance notes will be sent out on the 1st of March 2013. The final version of the paper is due on the 1st of May 2013.

For more information on practical details such as location, hotels etc. please click here (please note; more information will be uploaded to the site soon). If you have any questions please do not hesitate to send an email to inas2013@iffs.se.

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