• The Conversation Prism: The Landscape for International Social Networking | Brian Solis
  (tags: socialnetworks socialmedia statistics socialnetworking)
• Dan Lewis James: Social network design principles
  (tags: socialnetworks)
• Creative submissions to The Experimental Society | experimentality
  (tags: agenda, research)

• Live at Interaction’10: day 1

• Euro 2010 Lisbon
  (tags: conference research)
• European Conference on Complex Systems 2009
  (tags: research, complexsystems, socialnetworks)
• Ahora toca Foursquare
• Online journalism lesson #9: Audio slideshows, community and wikis

The Second International Conference on ‘Networked Digital Technologies’ (NDT2010)
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010.

The 2010 International Conference on Informatics,Cypernetics and
Computer Applications (ICICCA 2010)
Jain University, Bangalore, India, July 19-21, 2010.

The 2010 International conference on the Business and Digital Enterprises (ICBDE 2010)
Gopalan Educational Society, Bangalore, India, July, 22-24, 2010.

[via ECREA mailing-list]

• The Influence Landscape
• Algorithmic authority: critical reflections
• Building a hyperlocal website: 5 things hyperlocal can do and be, times 5
• Augmenting reality through journalism

• iPad: Overhyped Flop or a case of Great Design Thinking?

• The Dangers of Social Media

• Brief thoughts on discourse networks

• CfP: Communications and Media Research – ESA RN 18 | ECREA Young Scholars Network
  (tags: agenda research)
• The Geography of Science: Distribution Patterns and Networks of Relations among Cities and Institutes
  (tags: science)
• Inside Moldova’s Twitter Revolution | Danger Room | Wired.com
  (tags: twitter socialnetworks)
• Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review
  (tags: tagging)
• Profiling Social Networks: A Social Tagging Perspective
  (tags: tagging, socialnetworks)
• Ser/hacer en Internet. Dinámicas del sujeto conectado
• WooRank – Porque ainda faltava mais uma ferramenta de análise de websites
• Jogos, Sites de Rede Social e Conversações

The deadline for submission of abstracts to IAMCR 2010 (to be held in Braga, Portugal – 18-2 July 2010) has been extended to 8 February.
«The general theme of the conference is ‘Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change’ and it aims to interrogate emergent models of communication and to open up innovative debates on mechanisms for empowering citizenship and participation».

• Toward a Self-referential Collective Intelligence Some Philosophical Background of the IEML Research Program
  The paper explains the philosophical relevance of this new language, including the role of media and symbolic systems in human cognition, the hope of a scientific revolution in humanities and the perspective of a leap in human collective intelligence thank to its possible self-reference in the mirror of cyberspace.
  (tags: collaboration collectiveintelligence)
• Crowdsourcing – Inova Estratégia
  (tags: crowdsourcing)
• Forumblog.org – The World Economic Forum Blog: The Growing Influence of Social Networks
  (tags: social socialnetworks future society)
• Emergent Social Revolution #iranelection
  (tags: iran twitter socialnetworks)
• Crowdsourcing: Consumers as Creators
  (tags: crowdsourcing)
• Moldova’s Twitter Revolution – #pman
  (tags: moldova twitter socialnetworks)

• Australasian Digital Theses Program
  (tags: research thesis reference education)
• British Library EThOS – search and order theses online
  (tags: research thesis reference)

• Learning in Second Life: Virtual Education | VizWorld.com
  (tags: secondlife, elearning2.0)

• MKTONLINE.NET – O PORTAL DO MARKETING
  (tags: socialmedia)
• Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, Vol. 1, Iss. 1
  (tags: research journals media)

The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds Issue 1(2) is now available.

Contents:

- A life no longer worth playing: some remarks on in-game suicide
Authors: Michael Nagenborg And Christian Hoffstadt

- A Fable: or, how to recognize a narrative when you play one
Authors: Adam Rovner

- Teleporting the library?
Authors: Simon B. Heilesen

- The body of the avatar: rethinking the mind-body relationship in virtual worlds
Authors: Denise Doyle

- Developing a methodology for corpus-based computer game studies
Authors: Isamar Carrillo Masso

- DiGRA 2007 – Digital Games Research Association International Conference: Situated Play
Authors: Daniel Schultheiss