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2nd CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Workshop on Research 2.0

18 June, Manchester

(To be held in conjunction with the 4th International e-Social Science conference, 18-20 June 2008, http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/)

Background

Participation in online, social networking activities has become highly popular in contemporary society. Commercial websites integrating with a range of Web 2.0 tools have created a new discourse, replacing the static, top-down nature of Web 1.0. Web 2.0 is also changing the way we do research. It has been envisioned that a well-designed social networking site can facilitate communications between scientists at different physical locations and in different disciplines, and can encourage them or at least make it easier for them to share their data and findings, and possibly recreate and reuse these resources. Research 2.0 is the term commonly used to describe the extension of Web 2.0 tools to support academic and other research. But do all lessons we have learnt from generic social networking sites apply to scientific social networking ones? Or are there any substantial differences between the two, given the specific needs of users working in scientific field?

Format of the workshop

This one-day workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the 4th International e-Social Science conference at Manchester, aims to map current territory of Research 2.0 (What Web 2.0 applications exist in research and how have they been adopted), and to identify the opportunities and challenges in the development and implementation of Research 2.0. It will consist of a number of short papers and discussion sessions identifying promising research directions and initiating interdisciplinary collaboration.

Call for paper presenters and discussants

We are looking for paper presenters and discussants. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• new Web 2.0-based technologies for facilitating scientific work
• design and evaluation methodologies for Research 2.0 sites (including new research methods such as virtual ethnography)
• usability and performativity issues of Research 2.0 sites
• cultural, legal and social issues around Research 2.0
• case studies on scientific use of web 2.0 tools and concepts
• how Research 2.0 shape the production of scientific knowledge (Do Web 2.0 applications in research make a difference to existing Internet applications like email, content management systems or newsgroups?)
• good practice of engaging users and fostering a Research 2.0 community

Submission Guidelines

Participants interested in presenting a short paper or being a discussant should submit a 300-word abstract describing the paper to present or the topics to discuss to Yuwei Lin yuwei.lin@ncess.ac.uk not later than Friday 16 May, 2008.

Important Dates

Abstract submission: 16 May, 2008 Author notification: 19 May, 2008 Date of Workshop: 18 June, 2008

Organisers

Yuwei Lin (University of Manchester) Rob Procter (University of Manchester) Meik Poschen (University of Manchester) Rachel Gibson (University of Manchester) David De Roure (University of Southampton)

For further information please see http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/

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