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CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS, PANEL PROPOSALS AND POSTERS
What: 2013 International Conference on Social Media and Society
Where: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When: September 14-15, 2013
Website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/
Twitter hashtag: #SMSociety13
CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, gruzd(a)dal.ca (Primary Contact)
Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia
Karine Nahon, University of Washington
Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: May 1, 2013
Paper & Panel Notification: May 20, 2013
Poster Abstracts Due: May 30, 2013
Poster Notification: June 15, 2013
Conference dates: September 14-15, 2013
ABOUT THE EVENT:
It is no secret that social media has become mainstream in recent years,
and its adoption has skyrocketed. As a result of its growing popularity,
users’ online contributions and membership in online social networks
have exploded. The objective of this 2-day conference is to bring
together experts in social media and online social networks from both
the academic and business worlds, to share ideas on the best practices
around how to study the impact of social media on our society. The
conference will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to
present and debate their ideas, and provide attendees with the
opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their
research, and learn about latest research in this area from a
multidisciplinary perspective.
TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):
* BIG Data/Social Media Data
Scalability Issues and Social Media Data
Social Media Analytics
Social Media Data Mining
Social Media Mobile Applications
Visualization of Social Media Data
* Online Communities/Social Networks
Online and Offline Communities Formed on Social Media
Influential User Detection
Online Community Detection
Online Identity
Trust and Credibility in Social Media
* Social Media Impact on Society
Social Media & Public Administration
Political Mobilization & Engagement on Social Media
Social Media and Academia
Social Media and Business
Social Media and Journalism
Virality of Information in Social Media
* Theories and Methods
Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
Social Network Analysis
Theoretical Models for Studying Social Media
TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:
(1) Paper abstracts
Paper abstracts provide authors the opportunity to present their
original work related to the broad theme of social media and society.
(2) Panel presentations
Panel presentations provide authors the option of organizing three
related papers/talks together in a thematic session.
(3) Research poster presentations
The research poster session provides an interactive forum for authors to
discuss their research.
HOW TO SUBMIT:
See more information at http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/
For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd(a)dal.ca
Hello!
At the Institute of Government & Public Policies (Autonomous University of Barcelona) (igopnet.cc and http://igop.uab.es/) in cooperation with Amical Viquipedia, we are developing a research on active aging and ICTs. Our program involves both investigating the use and involvement of seniors with Wikipedia, and designing activities in order to further encourage their involvement.
If you like here you could find the presentation of the research project at Meta/Research: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Active_Aging,_citizenship_%26_parti…
We would appreciate if you could let us know any previous research done on this or related issues, and/or any activity you are aware off directly addressed to senior people.
Thank you very much in advance. Have a nice day! Mayo
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Fellow. Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Harvard University.
Researcher. Institute of Government and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Ph.D European University Institute
Website: http://www.onlinecreation.info
Phone: 0034-648877748
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Hi all,
The ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social
Computing (CSCW) usually publishes a lot of wiki and Wikimedia related
research. The 2014 Call for Papers is out, see below.
-Andrea
CALL FOR PAPERS, COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK AND SOCIAL
COMPUTING 2014 (CSCW 2014)
Baltimore, MD, Feb 15-19, 2014http://cscw.acm.org
CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on
how technology intersects with social practices. To support diverse
and high-quality contributions, CSCW employs a two-phase review
process and does not impose an arbitrary length limit on submissions.
IMPORTANT DATES
* May 31, 5:00pm PDT, 2013: Submission due
* July 6: First-round notification (Revise & Resubmit or Reject)
* July 26, 5:00pm PDT: Revised papers due
* August 23: Final notifications
We invite submissions that detail existing practices or inform the
design or deployment of systems or introduce novel systems,
interaction techniques, or algorithms. The scope of CSCW includes, but
is not limited to, social computing and social media,
technologically-enabled or enhanced communication, education
technologies, crowdsourcing, multi-user input technologies,
collaboration, information sharing, and coordination. It includes
socio-technical activities at work, in the home, in education, in
healthcare, in the arts, for socializing and for entertainment. New
results or new ways of thinking about, studying or supporting shared
activities can be in these and related areas:
- Social and crowd computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms,
systems, and/or infrastructures addressing social media, social
networking, user-generated content, wikis, blogs, online gaming,
crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, virtual worlds, collaborative
information seeking, etc.
- System design. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction
design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that enable
the building of new social and collaborative systems and experiences.
- Theories and models. Critical analysis or organizing theory with
clear relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative
systems.
- Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, and/or ethnographic
studies relating to technologies, practices, or use of communication,
collaboration, and social technologies.
- Methodologies and tools. Novel methods or combinations of approaches
and tools used in building systems or studying their use.
- Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. Including for
healthcare, transportation, gaming (for enjoyment or productivity),
ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, collective
intelligence, global collaboration, or other domains.
- Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and
ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch
technologies, novel display technologies, vision and gesture
recognition systems, big data infrastructures, MOOCs, crowd labor
markets, SNSes, sensor-based environments, etc.
- Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations
that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages,
generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend
social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries.
Papers should detail original research contributions. Papers must
report new research results that represent a contribution to the
field. They must provide sufficient details and support for their
results and conclusions. They must cite relevant published research or
experience, highlight novel aspects of the submission, and identify
the most significant contributions. Evaluation is on the basis of
originality, significance, quality of research, quality of writing,
and contribution to conference program diversity.
SUBMISSIONS
Paper submissions must be made via the Precision Conference System. A
link to the submission site will be made available by early May.
Papers will be presented at the CSCW conference and will be included
in the conference proceedings archived in the ACM Digital Library.
CSCW does not accept submissions that were published previously in
formally reviewed publications or that are currently submitted
elsewhere.
Send queries about Paper submissions to
papers2014(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:papers2014@cscw.acm.org>
<papers2014(a)cscw.acm.org>.
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:: Andrea Forte
:: Assistant Professor
:: College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University
:: http://www.andreaforte.net
by The International Conference on E-Technologies and Business on the Web (EBW2013)
The International Conference on E-Technologies and Business on the Web
(EBW2013)
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand on May 7-9,
2013.
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/ebw2013/
The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by
researchers from the international community, including presentations from
keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures.
The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to)
research topics:
- Web Applications
- E-Learning
- Semantic Web, Ontologies
- Barriers to E-Business Adoption
- Cryptography for enabling E-Commerce
- Digital Enterprises
- E-Commerce in developing countries
- E-Commerce Strategy Implementation
- E-tailing and multi-channel selling
- Confidentiality Protection
- Critical Computing and Storage
- Sensor Networks and Social Sensing
- Distributed and Parallel Applications
- XML-Based Languages
- Computational Intelligence
- Internet payment systems
- Web advertising and Web Publishing
- E-Business Applications and Software
- Consumer-oriented E-Commerce
- Digital Innovation Management
- Business Technology Intelligence
- Consumer Electronics
- Digital Libraries
- Customer relationship management
- E-commerce, e-business strategies
- Production of knowledge economy
- E-commerce technology adoption
- M-commerce and pervasive computing
- Economics issues of e-commerce
- E-commerce payment systems
- Future development of e-business
- Digital economics, and digital content
- Data mining and business intelligence
Important Dates
Submission Deadline : April 10, 2013
Notification of Acceptance : April 24, 2013
Camera Ready Submission : April 30, 2013
Registration : April 30, 2013
Conference Dates : May 7-9, 2013
Email: th(a)sdiwc.net
Visit: www.sdiwc.net
2013 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute
(a joint effort of the Consortium for Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) and the Summer Social Webshop)
July 28 – August 1, 2013
University of Maryland -- College Park, Maryland USA
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 5, 2013
MOOCs, Education and learning; personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information access; energy management and climate change; civic hacking, engagement and government; disaster response; cybersecurity and privacy – these are just a few problem domains where effective design and robust understanding of complex sociotechnical systems is critical. To meet these challenges a trans-disciplinary community of scholars has come together from fields as wide ranging as CSCW, HCI, social computing, organization studies, information visualization, social informatics, sociology, information systems, medical informatics, computer science, ICT for development, education, learning science, journalism, and political science.
Through summer institutes (CSST), extended workshops (Social Webshop), preconference workshops at a wide variety of venues, and other activities (Digital Societies and Technology Research Coordination Network) this community of researchers from academia and industry has developed a strong focus on problems and opportunities arising from the interplay of social and technological systems which span individuals, groups, organizations, and societies.
The 2013 Summer Institute builds on this tradition to strengthen and expand this diverse community by bringing together graduate students, post doctoral students, faculty, and other researchers in four groups at the University of Maryland, College Park on July 28-August 1:
Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers – Through mentoring, peer networking, and skill-building tutorials, doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers will identify substantive ways that the theories, approaches, and tools within the larger community can advance their work with the design and study of sociotechnical systems.
Established researchers – Prior summer institute/workshop participants and established researchers will network with other researchers (senior and junior), explore ideas and new directions, shape emerging research agendas, articulate critical challenges, and share knowledge about practices, tools, and approaches which have the potential to advance the design and study of sociotechnical systems.
Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams – Nascent groups of researchers seeking to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations will work with peers and mentors to refine problem statements and research goals; connect with collaborators with complementary skills and interests; and create actionable research agendas and funding proposals. Preference will be given to groups interested in designing and studying sociotechnical systems that address societal grand challenges such as (but not limited to) healthcare; energy management and climate change; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning; disaster response; technology development and innovation; economic development and work; and civic engagement and participation.
Research infrastructure development teams – Groups of researchers interested in creating computational or analytic tools, data resources, training materials or other infrastructure to support the design and study of sociotechnical systems will work with one another, other Summer institute participants, and local developers. These infrastructure “hackathon” sessions will result in the creation of use cases, prototypes, draft materials, and when possible deployable systems and resources.
APPLYING FOR DSST 2013
Applications are encouraged from all academic, industry, NGO, and public sector organizations worldwide. To apply for the 2013 Summer Institute, select the group that best fits your needs and situation and send the appropriate materials to the Summer Institute co-coordinator (Brian Butler) at bsbutler(a)umd.edu by April 5th, 2013:
* Doctoral students, post doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: “How does/will your work advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?” Several core references should be included to situate your work within the larger research community. Doctoral students should also provide a letter of recommendation from their advisor/department chair indicating their expected graduation date.
* Established researchers should send their CV and a short (~ 1 page) response to: “What are the most interesting challenges and opportunities related to the design and study of critical sociotechnical systems? What activity (30 minutes to 4 hours long) could you run that would help the Summer Institute participants better engage these challenges and opportunities?” Proposed activities can be for any (or all) Summer Institute participants and might include, but are not limited to: focused presentations; brainstorming sessions; in-depth problem descriptions; method, tool, or data tutorials; or research agenda setting exercises.
* Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: “What is the research focus/problem domain? What types of activities/studies are needed to engage that domain? How will pursuing this agenda help advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?” References potential funding sources can be included, if known, to situate the proposal within the larger research community. Groups invited to the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application for it to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed). Preference will be given to cross-institutional teams in which junior/mid-career researchers play significant leadership roles.
* Research infrastructure development teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (~ 1 page) response to: “What is the problem you are seeking to address? What will you do to address that problem? How will creating these technologies, tools, materials or infrastructure improve our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?” References to examples from other domains can be included to situate your proposal. Teams invited for the Summer Institute will have between 4-6 people from multiple disciplines and institutions. However, only 3 individuals need to be part of an application to be considered (assistance will be provided prior to the Summer Institute to help invited teams recruit additional participants as needed).
Lodging, meals, and other onsite costs will be covered for all Summer Institute participants. Limited travel support is available, if needed, for participants from US and Canadian institutions (with preference given to doctoral and post-doctoral students). Travel support may also be available for other Summer Institute participants. To be considered for all available financial support you should provide the following information when you apply:
* What college, university, or organization are you affiliated with?
* What is your primary department affiliation?
* If you are applying from a Canadian university, are you a member of the GRAND network?
Materials should be sent to Summer Institute co-coordinator (Brian Butler) at bsbutler(a)umd.edu by April 5th, 2013. Applications will be reviewed by the Summer Institute Advisory Group beginning April 6th, 2013 using the following criteria:
* Clear articulation of the hoped-for contribution to the theory, practice, or design of sociotechnical systems
* Likelihood of Summer Institute participation providing significant practical benefit for the individual/team
* Contribution to a balanced and diverse group of participants
The number of participants selected will depend on the available funding and the fit between applicants’ interests and goals.
For more information about the Summer Institute, contact the Summer Institute co-coordinators, Brian Butler (bsbutler(a)umd.edu) and Susan Winter (sjwinter(a)umd.edu). For information about the broader community of researchers interested in design and study of sociotechnical systems, see: CSST (www.sociotech.net), Social Webshop (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/webshop2012/), the "Researchers of the Socio-Technical" Facebook group, or the CSST listserv (csst(a)listserv.syr.edu).
DSST 2013 ADVISORY GROUP
Diane Bailey (University of Texas, Austin)
John Bertot (University of Maryland, College Park)
Jeremy Birnholtz (Northwestern University)
Amy Bruckman (Georgia Tech)
John Carroll (Penn State University)
Derrick Cogburn (American University)
Nosh Contractor (Northwestern University)
Dan Cosley (Cornell University)
Jonathon Cummings (Duke University)
Laura Dabbish (Carnegie Mellon University)
Leslie DeChurch (Georgia Tech)
Paul Dourish (University of California, Irvine)
Nicole Ellison (University of Michigan)
Susan Fussell (Cornell University)
Matt Germonprez (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Sean Goggins (Drexel University)
Jen Golbeck (University of Maryland, College Park)
Rebecca Grinter (Georgia Tech)
Anatoliy Gruzd (Dalhousie University)
Caroline Haythornthwaite (University of British Columbia)
Libby Hemphill (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Pamela Hinds (Stanford University)
Erik Johnston (Arizona State University)
Nicolas Jullien (TELECOM Bretagne)
Sara Kiesler (Carnegie Mellon University)
Aniket Kittur (Carnegie Mellon University)
Mark Klein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Bob Kraut (Carnegie Mellon University)
Karim Lakhani (Harvard University)
Natalia Levina (New York Univesity)
Wayne Lutters (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western Reserve)
Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine)
Anne Massey (Indiana University)
Bonnie Nardi (University of California, Irvine)
Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
Gary Olson (University of California, Irvine)
Felipe Ortega (University Rey Juan Carlos)
Jenny Preece (University of Maryland, College Park)
David Ribes (Georgetown University)
Tony Salvador (Intel)
Steve Sawyer (Syracuse University)
Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland, College Park)
Marc Smith (Social Media Research Foundation)
Charles Steinfeld (Michigan State University)
Kate Stewart (University of Maryland, College Park)
Susan Straus (Rand Corporation)
Andrea Tapia (Penn State University)
Michael Twidale (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)
Youngjin Yoo (Temple University)
DSST 2013 SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
The 2013 DSST Summer Institute is offered in conjunction with the following partners:
* The Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST),
* The Summer Social Webshop
Financial support for DSST 2013 is being provided by the following Enabling Sponsors:
* U.S. National Science Foundation via Digital Societies and Technology Research Coordination Network (DST-RCN)
* GRAND-NCE
Facilities, administrative, and logistical support for DSST 2013 is provide by the following Host Sponsors:
* The University of Maryland, College of Information Studies (UMD iSchool)
*The Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information (CASCI)
* Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL),
* Information Policy and Access Center (iPAC)
For those doing participatory HCI research, this may be relevant. First
deadline July 31st is an indication of interest. Details below.
-Jodi
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Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Subject: [Air-L] CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on participatory HCI
research: Beginnings, middles and endings
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Int. Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings
http://di.ncl.ac.uk/participation/special-issue/
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Scope
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Participation is a research area of sustained interest to the HCI
community. Traditionally, the term has been used to suggest a democratized
approach to the design of technology that calls for end-user involvement in
the design process. This may vary from researchers inviting specific users
or stakeholders to participate in design workshops, through to long term
engagements with communities to define research questions and study
deployments of new technologies. As HCI is an interdisciplinary field,
however, there are multiple understandings of what participation in
research might mean, from subjects and disciplines such as social science,
participatory and performance arts, international development, and action
research. Beyond these influences, there is also increased pressure from
funding bodies and public institutions to involve a wider spectrum of the
public in academic research. The convergence of these factors has drawn
attention to the potential benefits and challenges, both theoretical and
practical of involving users and the public in HCI research.
While user, citizen or stakeholder participation in design processes can
offer great insight into the applicability of technological interventions
in certain contexts, the HCI community would benefit from critically
reflecting on how participation is planned, managed, and sustained. The
mundane yet still significant details of how participatory HCI research is
performed are rarely documented and discussed by the community. The coming
together of multiple perspectives from different disciplines – some of
which have existing frameworks, some debate the very notion of
participation – provides an opportunity for HCI researchers to reflect
critically on how people are involved in design processes. Specifically, we
call attention to the following three phases of performing participatory
HCI research:
How we begin:
How do researchers establish relationships with communities, participants,
or users and stakeholders prior to commencing participatory research? Who
here determines the research context and the setting it takes place in, or
what research questions are formed? Furthermore, what agendas, skills and
assumptions do researchers bring to a participatory project? Why are
certain participants selected or invited to take part over others?
How we reflex and reflect:
How do researchers reflect upon and manage the complicated processes of
participation and engagement while working with groups or communities? How
are researchers and participants given space to document and reflect upon
the activities they perform and how does this inform the research or design
process throughout? How do we understand our practice when busy doing it
and can we develop strategies to elicit generative reflections on practice
as it is enacted? Furthermore, is it possible to document participatory
work along the way without skewing the process itself?
How we end:
How do researchers determine whether deployments or interventions should be
sustained beyond the formal completion of research, and what are the
practical challenges of leaving a legacy of a participatory project? Is
sustainability or legacy always positive outcome of participatory research,
and are there ways of empirically understanding transformations within a
context beyond the uptake or success of a specific technology or
intervention?
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Topics
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This special issue aims to present a set of high quality, thought
provoking, original research articles that address one or more of these
stages through topics including, but not limited to:
-- Empirical studies collaborating with organizations and communities in
the design or evaluation of new technologies.
-- Studies of participatory HCI that target specific populations or
communities, such as older people, young people, activist groups,
charities, rural communities, among others.
-- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks that unpack the questions and
related problems of participation as a process.
-- Critical reflections on existing and historical examples of
participation in HCI.
-- Strategies for documenting and eliciting reflection from both
researchers and participants engaged in research.
-- Considerations of the ethical, moral and political implications of
designing technologies with communities of users and stakeholders.
-- Interdisciplinary perspectives on participatory HCI research.
-- Case studies discussing experiences of beginning, reflecting on or
sustaining participatory HCI research.
It is anticipated that submissions will tackle at least one stage of
participatory research/design processes in use, as described above, and
that accepted papers will comprise examples from each phase. Papers
addressing theoretical issues will only be considered where the
contribution is exceptional.
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Paper submission
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Authors are requested to contact the guest editors (email:
participation.di(a)gmail.com<mailto:participation.di@gmail.com>) prior to
making a submission by July 31st 2013 to inform them of their plans to
submit to the special issue. All submissions should be made to the IJHCS
submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs selecting "SI:
participatory HCI" as the Article Type. Full manuscripts should be
submitted according to the IJHCS Guide for authors and will be blind
refereed.
Articles must be based on original research, although extended versions of
published conference papers may be acceptable if they contain at least 50%
new material. All manuscripts should be submitted online. The IJHCS Guide
for authors and online submission is available at
http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs.
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Key dates
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Email guest editors prior to submission: 31st July 2013
Paper due date: 31st August 2013
Review completion date: 15th November 2013 (Notification of 1st
review)
Re-Submission by: 17th January 2014
Final Acceptance: 21st February 2014 (Notification of 2nd review)
Final Version due: 7th April 2014
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Guest Editors
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John Vines, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Rachel Clarke, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Ann Light, Northumbria University (United Kingdom)
Peter Wright, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
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