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= Web Science Conference 2011  =

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= June 15-17, Koblenz, Germany =

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=   http://www.websci11.org/   =

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=     Call for Abstracts       =

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Web Science is concerned with the full scope of socio-technical

relationships that are engaged in the World Wide Web. It is based on the

notion that understanding the Web involves not only an analysis of its

architecture and applications, but also insight into the people,

organizations, policies, and economics that are affected by and subsumed

within it. As such Web Science, and thus this conference, is inherently

interdisciplinary and integrates computer and information sciences,

sociology, economics, political science, law, management, language and

communication, geography and psychology. This conference is unique in

the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and

critical dialogue and we invite papers from all these disciplines and

those which cross traditional disciplinary boundaries.  

Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens and WebSci'10 in Raleigh we

are seeking papers that demonstrate the development, scope, and

relevance of the emerging field of Web Science. Possible topics for

submissions include:

* On-line lives: individuals and organizations shopping, dating,

  learning, networking 

* Trust and privacy

* Evolving technologies -- new search technologies, linked data, new Web

  languages and/or protocols, and emerging application areas

* The pro-human web in an unequal world: access, inequalities and

  agendas for change 

* Web futures: possibilities critiques and challenges

* The web and the state: nationalism, politics. democracy

* Governance control and power

* Knowledge, education, and scholarship--the potential and effects of

  crowdsourcing and long tails 

* Intellectual property and the Commons

* The dark side of the Web--such as cybercrime, pornography and

  terrorism 

Important Dates

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Submission deadline for 2-page abstracts: 28 February 2011

Notification of acceptance: 21 March 2011

Submission Information

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Submissions are in the form of extended abstracts of 250-500 words

(max. 2 pages). Abstracts may be submitted in PDF (.pdf, preferred),

HTML (.html), plain-text (.txt) or Word (.doc) format. 

Authors of accepted abstracts will have the option to submit a paper,

which will be published on the conference website.  The recommended

length of submitted papers is 6 to 8 pages.  A selection of accepted

abstracts will be allotted a slot for an oral presentation and/or a

poster presentation.  The best submissions will be invited to a journal

contribution.

Organization

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Programme Chairs:

David de Roure, eResearch Center,  University of Oxford

Scott Poole, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at

  Urbana-Champaign  

General Chairs:

Steffen Staab, Institute for Web Science & Technologies, University of

  Koblenz-Landau 

York Sure, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Science & University of

  Koblenz-Landau 

Christof Wolf, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Science & University

  of Mannheim