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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Cambria;background:white">Call for Paper</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Cambria;background:white">International Symposium</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Cambria;background:white">Towards an Ecology of
Data.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Cambria;background:white"> Political and Scientific Issues of
Digital Data.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri;background:white">February 14th, 2013</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center"><i><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;background:white">Institut
des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS (ISCC)</span></i></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center"><i><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;background:white">20
rue Berbier-du-Mets, Paris, France</span></i></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">There is currently a
growing number of data produced and disseminated in professional, public and
scientific spaces. These data come from various sources: governments posting
their operational data within Open Data initiatives, companies opening
non-strategic data, scientists increasingly sharing banks of data, or Internet users.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Traditional ways of
processing data seem insufficient in front of these big data. This fact calls
for new means of thinking how to extract, store (grids, cloud computing ...), share,
analyze and visualize data. The Web 2.0 related term “data science” (i.e.
extracting, processing, analyzing data) now concerns a large number of
activities similarly facing large data sets, such as scientific research or
data journalism.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">This symposium will cover
the theoretical and practical implications of social research based on data. It
calls for critical works that identify the quantitative leap induced by large
masses of data available for social sciences, and the related disciplinary and
epistemological consequences, e.g. notions of author or producer, public and
private actors strategies, citizen uses of data, emerging ecosystems of data processing,
local initiatives currently developing Open Data services and applications with
related business issues.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Epistemological
reflections, work in progress and position papers are welcome and can cover one
of the following areas:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt 35.7pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">1.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Digital
data and social sciences: History and Epistemology</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Large
data corpora have been processed for a long time within scientific practices:
what is the precise nature of the qualitative leap brought by current
technologies? Does the presence of massive data change social science practices?
What are the needs, expectations, challenges and emerging solutions? Do these new
methods of processing digital data imply epistemological changes?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">2.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">The
politics of Open Data, citizen participation and local eco-systems.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">In
recent years, Open Data initiatives have been set off by both law changes and
actors’ specific demands. It aims to make public data available and reusable.
This movement raises many questions: Is it a public service improvement, a regional
development tool? What is the relationship between supply and demand, top/down
and bottom/up initiatives? Who are those who really understand the data? Can
these uses be interpreted as civic empowerment or democracy renewal, as suggested
by the proximity between "Open Data" and "Open Government"?
How can traditional participatory democracy use these data? What are the
possible links between public data and already implemented territorial e-democracy
practices?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">3.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">New
sociotechnical mediations, training and professionalization.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Which
elements should compose the knowledge base necessary to understand issues around
these data? What are the new forms of mediation facilitating citizen uses of released
data and its applications? This third axis will highlight, for each category of
actors, the type of skills required to be able to understand the data ecosystem
in all its complexity, from technical to political aspects. What are the
solutions implemented by the various professions facing this flow of data? What
types of mediation would increase effective ownership of released data by civil
society? What are the training needs to sustain and develop these efforts? How are
these new forms of data management skills reorganizing professions (particularly
journalism), companies and administrations involved in Open Data?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Submission</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">We
welcome proposals based on current experiments, theoretical reflections and
comparative analysis. They can be written in English or in French.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Proposals
should be 1000 words long, short bibliography included. Selected contributions
will be published in a special issue of a French-speaking academic journal.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Proposals should be sent to:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri">Clément Mabi: </span><a href="mailto:clement.mabi@utc.fr" target="_blank"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">clement.mabi@utc.fr</span></a><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri"> and Jean-Christophe Plantin: </span><a href="mailto:jean-christophe.plantin@utc.fr" target="_blank"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">jean-christophe.plantin@utc.fr</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri"> <span lang="FR"></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Deadlines</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">• Deadline for submission of proposals: November
15<sup>th</sup> 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">• Notification of acceptance: December 15<sup>th</sup>
2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">• Symposium: February 14<sup>th</sup> 2013</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;background:white">Scientific Committee </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">David Berry (Swansea University, College
of Arts and Humanities)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri">Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay (CNRS-ISCC)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Clément Mabi (UTC-Costech)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Jean-Christophe Plantin (UTC-Costech)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Bernard Rieder (University of Amsterdam,
Media studies department)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri">Valérie Schafer (CNRS-ISCC)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri">Laurence Smith-Monnoyer (UTC-Costech)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri">Bruno
J. Strasser (Université de </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri">Genève & Yale
University)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">Stéphanie Wojcik (UPEC-Ceditec)</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Jean-Christophe Plantin<br><br><div>Doctorant Contractuel</div><div>Sciences de l'information et de la communication</div><div>Université de Technologie de Compiègne<br>Laboratoire Costech/Equipe EPIN<br>
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Laboratoire Costech/Equipe EPIN<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Mob: + 33 (0)6 50 86 15 60</div><div>Blog: <a href="http://cartonomics.org" target="_blank">cartonomics.org</a></div><div>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/jcplantin" target="_blank">@jcplantin</a></div>
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