[Air-L] Register Today to Get the Early Bird Rates for "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States"

[Stuart Shulman]

Please join us at the 1st Annual Journal of Information Technology &
Politics Conference, "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the
United States," taking place April 16 & 17, 2009 at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst.

This conference brings together social and computer scientists to
examine the electoral impact of user-created YouTube content and to
demonstrate new technical and analytic opportunities associated with
new media technologies and politics.

Register on or before January 31 and receive an Early Bird discount.
http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/

The conference is pleased to feature two keynote speakers:

Day 1: Richard Rogers, Chair in New Media & Digital Culture,
University of Amsterdam. He is Director of Govcom.org, the group
responsible for the Issue Crawler and other info-political tools, and
the Digital Methods Initiative, reworking method for Internet
research. Rogers is author of Information Politics on the Web (MIT
Press, 2004), awarded the 2005 best book of the year by the American
Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). Current research
interests include Internet censorship, googlization, the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the Web, as well as the
post-demographics implied by recommender systems.

Day 2: Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of
Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of
Communication and the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in
Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University. He is
investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and
dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in
communities.  Specifically, his research team is developing and
testing theories and methods of network science to map, understand and
enable more effective networks in a wide variety of contexts including
communities of practice in business, science and engineering
communities, disaster response teams, public health networks, digital
media and learning networks, and in virtual worlds, such as Second
Life.

YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle is co-sponsored by the Departments
of Political Science, Computer Science and Communication at UMass
Amherst; the Center for Public Policy and Administration at UMass
Amherst; Panopto; TubeKit; the National Center for Digital Government;
the Qualitative Data Analysis Program; the Science, Technology and
Society Initiative; the Journal of Information Technology and
Politics; and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UMass
Amherst and is supported by a grant from the Research Leadership in
Action Program in the Office of Research and Engagement at UMass
Amherst.

Visit the conference website for more information:
http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/

Regards,
Michelle

Michelle Sagan Goncalves
Conference Coordinator
YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the US
126 Thompson Hall
UMass Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
Telephone: + 1 413 577 2354