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HumanIT Annual Report March 2013 – February 2014 1 Executive Summary HumanIT is a multidisciplinary research centre at Karlstad University, underlining user and human perspectives on information and communication technologies (ICTs). The centre seeks to enhance the appreciation and usability of ICTs, for improved livelihood without compromising human rights. Departing from user perspectives, research on ICTs is enabled through collaboration between different researchers at the University, and in close collaboration with the industry and public sector. HumanIT profiles three areas that remain focused on user perspectives in ICT research; ICT for/enabled Development (ICT4D) Surveillance and Privacy in Information Society ICT for Disaster Management and Crisis Communication A number of developments within these areas took place during the year such as a successful research application from Vinnova by the ICT for Disaster Management and Crisis Communication. Another successful application was within the ICT enabled Development stream, where Jakob Svensson and Caroline Wamala secured research funding from the Åke Wiberg foundation that will be used for field work research in the autumn term of 2014. Research application to the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions, submitted by researchers led by John Sören Petterson from Informatics was successful, and this project is on-going. Doctoral seminars for PhD candidates affiliated with the centre were successfully held with discussants/opponents, providing an interactive forum for discussion. Minor Field Studies (MFS) grantees returned from their field visits and in September 2013, presented their findings during a HumanIT seminar. Conferences (International and regional) furthered the centre’s visibility with the presence of HumanIT director, and researchers affiliated with HumanIT. Additionally preparations for two international events, the ICT for Democracy summer school and the Mobile Communications for Development Conference scheduled to take place in the spring term of 2014, continued in earnest aided by technological platforms such as Skype and email exchanges. Cooperation with the Society for Education and Research and Development (SERD) in New Delhi India who will co-host and co-organise the ICT for Democracy summer school was strengthened. New collaborations were also successfully sought with the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna - Austria, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar – Senegal and The Hague university of Applied Sciences. The Internet and Security Conference hosted by Compare, in Karlstad was in cooperation with different regional partners. This occasion held October 2013 marked the commemoration of the European Cyber Security month, and brought together Swedish and Norwegian actors from the industry, public sector, as well as academic to discuss the cyber defense mechanisms that different institutions in Sweden and Norway think about as well as utilize. To further HumanIT’s visibility in the region, HumanIT centre sponsored a lunch at the conference, and together with HumanIT board member Mikael Lundström distributed flyers and information material about HumanIT. Among the material distributed at the conference was a flyer about seminars scheduled for the autumn term that would continue this very important discussion on cyber security at the University in collaboration with HumanIT centre. 21 seminars were successfully hosted in 2013 majority in cooperating with other departments, 6 directly organized by HumanIT. Lastly the HumanIT director Jakob Svensson’s tenure came to an end in August 2013, and Caroline Wamala assumed this position from that date. The HumanIT board that guides and supports the development of the centre also renewed their commitment until 2016. 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 2 Detailed overview of 2013 .................................................................................................................. 4 Research Projects and Funding Applications ...................................................................................... 5 Doctoral Research at HumanIT............................................................................................................ 6 Collaboration and Conferences ........................................................................................................... 6 An overview of activities in the profile areas ................................................................................ 10 Industrial Cooperation................................................................................................................... 12 Seminar Series ................................................................................................................................... 12 Organisation and Information management .................................................................................... 16 Publications in 2013 .......................................................................................................................... 16 3 Detailed overview of 2013 The HumanIT centre is located under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences after the organizational restructuring. The centre’s portal paragraph, adapted in 2012, remained unchanged in 2013 and reads as follows: In close cooperation with the trade, industry and public sector, HumanIT is a multidisciplinary research center underlining user and human perspectives on information and communication technologies (ICTs). HumanIT seeks to enhance the appreciation and usability of ICTs in people’s everyday life without compromising human rights such as privacy. Based on a human perspective, HumanIT focuses on ICT uses for improved livelihood. Further attention is drawn to developing regions as well as the role and potential uses of ICTs in crisis and emergency situations. HumanIT objectives: - Underline and strengthen research focusing on human perspectives of ICTs. - Establish Karlstad University as a leading institution for research on human perspectives of ICTs. - Provide a multi-disciplinary platform for research and collaboration across disciplines with trade, industry and public sector. - Contribute to the trade, industry and public sector by influencing product and service development. The objectives above are achieved through the centre’s profile areas which as mentioned in the executive summary are: Surveillance and Privacy in the Information Society ICT for/enabled Development (ICT4D) ICT for Disaster Management and Crisis Communication. Each of the profile areas secured some funding – explored subsequently – that will assist their progression. An inventory of the year’s activities point towards substantially more international cooperation as will be noted throughout the report. The centre strives to engage with regional and international institutions and a strong international presence is especially favourable towards Karlstad University’s process of internationalization. Karlstad University’s international profile aims to strengthen and enlarge its research and education through international cooperation which is a process that HumanIT has contributed to significantly during this year. It is equally important and beneficial for HumanIT to strengthen and expand the regional cooperation which is a task that the centre will engage with actively during the autumn of 2014. 4 Research Projects and Funding Applications The role of open access in the maturing process of IT research education. Three case studies John Sören Pettersson is the principle researcher in this research project that seeks to understand the role Open Access can play for the growth of IT departments at East African universities. Collaborating with researchers at Makerere University under the leadership of Rehema Baguma, the research is being carried out in collaboration with an ongoing Spider supported education project in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Access to current, relevant and high quality research results at low/no cost has a big potential to drive development in developing countries. Open access (OA) research provides a platform for world-wide knowledge sharing but the channels are still limited, particularly in developing countries. In this project the research team wants to make a case study of the actual usage of OA but also study OA as a driver and as a possible barrier for scholarly communication (will OA work/compete with existing fora?). OA initiatives, governing policies as well as attitudes and habits of administrators and researchers of Information Technology/Information Systems departments at Makerere University, Uganda, University of Nairobi, Kenya, and University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the department of Information Systems at Karlstad University, Sweden, will be compared and discussed. A site visit to Makerere University, by researchers from KAU was conducted in December 2013 by researchers from Informatics, Prima Gustiené, Monika Magnusson, and Peter Bellström. Virtual studio for crisis training The application for a pre-study for a “Virtual studio for crisis training” was awarded a Vinnova grant (within the FRÖN programme). This project is being hosted by Länsstyrelsen Värmland, and Monika Magnusson who is the HumanIT coordinator for its ICT4 Crisis Communication programme manages the project. Researchers from KAU specifically HumanIT and CCS will perform the work with the Interactive Institute (Karlstad) and Risk and Crisis Research Center at Mid Sweden University. The project will run from 1 November 2013 to 31 May 2014. mEmpowerment - Mobile communication for empowering women and girls This research proposal revolves around the notion of mEmpowerment; analysing to what extent mobile communication contributes to the empowerment of women and girls. Mobile communication has grown at an exponential rate in developing countries, clearly emerging as the more accessible and popular device within the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). The mobile phone is emerging as a critical tool for development, evidenced by the numerous applications and platforms being developed on a regular basis. While access to mobile devices is still an important obstacle, there is no doubt that the proliferation of mobile telephony has opened up a range of possibilities and new avenues for development and empowerment. The research will be carried out by Jakob Svensson and Caroline Wamala and a field visit to Uganda will be organized in the autumn of 2014. 5 Doctoral Research at HumanIT HumanIT doctoral candidates Ilkin Mehrabov and Frank van Geelkerken held doctoral seminars during the year. Ilkin presented his doctoral proposal in April 2013, and Frank in May 2013 with examiners/disccusants. During the year Ilkin also attended four international conferences providing him the opportunity to share his research with other scholars. Ilkin also carried out teaching during the year, and also has a peer reviewed journal publication that can be seen at the end of this document with other publications from the centre. Frank is doing his PhD in Law and ICT and Ilkin in Media and Communication. Florencia Enghel, doctoral candidate in media and communication held her 60% seminar in August 2013 on “A qualitative study of video letters.” Dr. Alexandra Segerberg, senior lecturer at Stockholm University, was Florencia's opponent during the seminar. Florencia contributed a chapter to an edited volume with Karin G. Wilkins, Joseph D Straubhaar & Shanti Kumar published by Springer. Her chapter in this publication is included in the publications list at the end of this document. Paola Sartoretto, doctoral candidate also affiliated to HumanIT, carried out field work in Brazil in 2013. Paola’s research in Media and Communication and her research focus is on the communicative processes and media practices in the rural workers movement in Brazil. Julio Angulo, Ph.D. Candidate in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), attended the 15th International Conference HCI International Las Vegas Nevada USA June 2013. His contribution Profiles: prototyping an online information segregation service, was published by Springer, edited by M. Kurosu, 2013. Collaboration and Conferences M4D2014 Conference During 2013 HumanIT has worked to prepare for the 4th International Conference on Mobile Communications for Development (M4D2014). The conference will take place the 8th - 9th of April 2014 in Dakar, Senegal. Université Cheick Anta Diop de Dakar will be the main organizer with HumanIT acting as a co-organizer. See the conference webpage www.m4d2014.net for more information. Along with the website and call for papers sent via email, flyers have been printed to be distributed at conferences to encourage participation in April 2014. The first call for papers had as a due date 1 October 2013. An extended deadline to 1 December 2013 was granted to encourage and accommodate more submissions from West African Institutions that were on Academic term breaks. By 1 December the number of paper submissions received was over 70, including workshops, panels and posters and demos. The conference will be preceded by a doctoral workshop 7th April 2014, which will provide an avenue for doctoral candidates who are doing their research in M4D with mentorship opportunities by senior researchers, Prof Laura Stark from University of Jyväskylä, Prof Rich Ling from IT university of Copenhagen, and Dr Jonathan Donner from Microsoft. 6 ICT4Democracy Summer School Jakob Svensson and Dr Vikas Kumar following M4D2012 conference that was hosted by School for Education and Research Development in New Delhi, begun discussions around a summer school in the area of ICT use in democracy. To facilitate this process, Jakob successfully applied for funding from STINT. This grant was used for the travel and accommodation of the principle summer school organisers to have a pre-workshop meeting at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna in December 2013. The remainder of the funding will also facilitate the travel and accommodation expenses for the organisers from Sweden, Switzerland and Austria. The meeting in December took place in Vienna, and helped shape the agenda and schedule for the summer school. The keynotes and lectures were also finalized during this two day meeting. Over 20 participants from developing regions in the global south, as well as others in Europe submitted papers for the summer school. These participants are at masters and PhD levels of education. Each paper was reviewed by two members of the organizing committee. The successful candidates were contacted and participants from the developing regions expressed a need for funding assistance to participate in the summer school. Crowd funding for summer school participants While in Vienna the organisers set up a crowd funding page with Indigogo with a clear message that the funds collected would go towards sponsoring the participants from developing countries. This page run until February 9, 2014 with a target collection set at 6500 USD. At the close of the campaign the amount collected was 1205 USD and this amount will go towards providing meals for the summer school participants. HumanIT Collaborating with The Hague University of Applied Sciences The Academy for European Studies and Communication management at the Hague University of Applied Sciences, has as its mission the goal to “provide students with the broadest professional, academic and personal experience of the world during their time” at the Institution. The idea is to “equip them with the necessary tools to be able to operate successfully in the global community dealing with the emerging issues of the 21st Century world”1. In their third year, students in teams of 5 or 6 students carry out assignments provided by “internationally oriented companies and institutions, the idea being to provide students with practical insight in contemporary themes”. As part of the “Europe 21” project within this course, Jakob Svensson designed the assignment "Europe for a Democratic and Empowered Africa" - Evaluating development initiatives on mobile phones for participation and empowerment in Africa for governmental European aid agencies. Jakob and Caroline were the assignment providers and the student groups were required to submit reports and present their assignments on the 19th December 2013 to Svensson and Wamala and external Jurors. This process also required remote supervision provided by Svensson and Wamala. 1 7 The Academic Guide Guest Students 2014-2015 Conferences Attended in 2013 During the year, international presence at conferences enlarged HumanIT centre’s visibility. 1. Mobile telephony in the Developing World University of Jyväskylä, Finland May 2013 Jakob and Caroline present a research paper on development of M4D 2. ACSIS Conference: On the Move, Norrköping, 11-13 May 2013. Paper by Prof Jansson, André, in media and Communication studies. Paper titled: Media in Close Relationships: A Quantitative Study Focusing on Mobile Lifestyles 3. The 2013 ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Conference – University of Bonn, Germay, October 2013. The conference theme was “Digital culture, promises and discomforts”. Jakob presented the research proposal submitted to Vetenskapsrådet in April, titled “financial inclusion or social exclusion? Transacting social relations through mobile money in Uganda”. Jakob was also invited as a key note speaker where he had the opportunity to give a presentation titled “New media for development”. 4. ACSIS 2013: "On The Move", ACSIS (Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden), 11-13 June 2013, Norrköping, SWEDEN. 11.06.2013, Paper Presentation by Ilkin Mehrabov: "Moving Forward the Concept: Critical reflections on universality of music perception". 5. ICA 2013: "Challenging Communication Research", ICA (International Communication Association), 17-21 June 2013, London, UK. Paper presentation by PhD Candidate Ilkin Mehrabov: "Challenging the Intersections of Media and Communication Research: Terra Incognita of Surveillance Studies". 6. IAMCR 2013: "Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders", IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research), 25-29 June 2013, Dublin, IRELAND. Paper Presentation by Ilkin Mehrobov (with Miyase Christensen): "Mediatization, Migration and Home-Making: Ontological and Material Dimensions". Title of Paper Presentation: "Re-appropriating the Means of Production and Distribution: DIY, Copyleft, and ‘Alternative’ Music". 7. 15th International Conference HCI International Las Vegas Nevada USA June 2013, Julio Angulo, PhD candidate in Human Computer Interaction. 8. International Communication Association, 17-21 June 2013 at the Hilton London Metropole, London, UK with Karlsson, Michael, Associate professor in Media and Communication. Paper titled: Content analysis is dead, long live content analysis? 9. 9th Swedish National Computer Networking Workshop, Lund, June 3-4, 2013, with Alfredsson, Stefan from Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap) (Distributed Systems and 8 Communication Research Group. Paper titled: Observations of Bufferbloat in Swedish Cellular Networks. Co-authored by: Del Giudice, Giacomo; Garcia, Johan; Brunstrom, Anna; De Cicco, Luca; Mascolo, Saverio. 10. IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 4-7 June 2013, Madrid – Spain with Alfredsson, Stefan from Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap) (Distributed Systems and Communication Research Group. Paper titled: Impact of TCP Congestion Control on Bufferbloat in Cellular Networks. Co-authored by: Del Giudice, Giacomo; Garcia, Johan; Brunstrom, Anna; De Cicco, Luca; Mascolo, Saverio 11. Future Network & Mobile Summit Lisabon 3-5 July 2013 with Rajiullah, Mohammad, Doctoral candidate with Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap, Paper titled: Reducing Internet Transport Latency for Thin Streams and Short Flows. Co-authored by: Brunström, Anna and Petlund, Andreas 12. 2013 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications(PIMRC): Mobile and Wireless Networks, Klockar, Annika from Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT, Avdelningen för datavetenskap paper titled: Utility as a User Selection Criterion for Coordinated Multi-Point Systems. Coauthored by: Botella, Carmen; Sternad, Mikael; Brunstrom, Anna; Svensson, Tommy. 13. Nordmedia 8-11 Augusti 2013, Oslo; Clerwall, Christer, paper titled: Who wrote this? Users' perception of software-generated content in online news 14. Nordmedia13 Oslo 8-11 August, with Holt, Kristoffer (Linnéuniversitetet), Karlsson, Michael. Paper titled: How are citizen journalists telling news? The Swedish case 15. Nordmedia13 Oslo 8-11 augusti, with Karlsson, Michael. Paper titled: Getting softer or harder?: A longitudinal study of news topics in tabloid, quality and local newspaper websites in U.K. and Sweden. 16. Aboagora Symposium 2013: The Human Machine, Turku, 13-15 August 2013. With Jansson, André, Professor in Media and Communication. Paper titled: Reflections on Social Media: Invited panel presentation at the Symposium: The Human Machine 17. Future of Journalism Cardiff 12-13 September, with Karlsson, Michael; Clerwall, Christer & Nord, Lars. Paper titled: Transparency and credibility: An experimental study 18. Future of Journalism Cardiff 12-13 September, with Karlsson, Michael; paper titled: Digitalization and tabloidization: A longitudinal study of news topics in tabloid, quality and local newspaper websites in U.K. and Sweden 9 19. The Internet and Security Conference at Karlstad with Compare2, Karlstad October 2013. In commemoration with the European Cyber Security Month, this event was the result of cooperation from different partnerships. The occasion gave opportunity to discuss the cyber defense mechanisms that different institutions in Sweden and Norway think about or use. 20. The 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM’13), Barcelona, November 3 to 8,2013. With Lavén, Andreas from Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap. Paper titled: Performance Evaluation of the Anypath Routing and Forwarding Mechanism AP-OLSR. Co-authored by: Brunstrom, Anna & Kassler, Andreas Collaboration From the above activities, a number of research collaborations have been developed and strengthened. From the conference in Bonn, Jakob Svensson connected with Sandy Ross Sociology Fellow from the Higher School of Economics, Moscow Russia. Collaboration with the Hague University of Applied Sciences was developed with a foresight of future cooperation Danube University Krems, Austria Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Managment and Communication University of Zurich with the Institute for Mass Communication and Media Research University of Jyväskyla, with a subsequent invitation to Professor Laura Stark to give a keynote at the M4D2014 conference in Dakar. University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar Strengthened cooperation with Makerere University through the open access project (see page 4) School for Education and Research Development in New Delhi - India An overview of activities in the profile areas ” Compare Karlstad is a joint organization for ICT companies in the region. Compare was formed by the seven major companies 12 years ago and has now almost 100 members with a total of around 3.000 engineers and technicians in the region. Their common goal from the start was to find areas where they could cooperate and benefit from one another in order to underpin the region as an attractive place for companies for business and finding good competence. This cooperation has now been extended and further developed to form innovative interaction with players from trade and industry, research and society.” http://www.compare.se/ 2 10 Profile area: Surveillance and Privacy in Information Societies Funding applications and On-going research projects Ongoing research projects include the EU FP7 project A4Cloud (Accountability for the Cloud and Future Internet Services) with Computer Science Department as the leading partner in cooperation with Information Systems and Psychology, as well as the EU FP7 FET integrated project SmartSociety with Computer Science as a participant. In the A4Cloud project, HumanIT participants cooperate in the research area of usable transparency tools. The Computer Science Department has been involved in several EU H2020 applications, from which the Research and Innovation Action project PRISMACLOUD; which deals with privacy-enhancing crypto for the Cloud, was already successful and a grant agreement with the EC is currently under preparation. Profile area: ICT enabled Development Funding applications and On-going research projects Ongoing research projects include: “The role of open access in the maturing process of IT research education”. Three case studies and “mEmpowerment - Mobile communication for empowering women and girls” discussed on pages 3 and 4 respectively. Research application titled Financial Inclusion or Social Exclusion? Transacting social relations through mobile money in Uganda, submitted to Vetenskapsrådet (VR) was not granted funding. The lead applicant Caroline Wamala and collaborating researchers, Jakob Svensson, Evelyn Kahiigi, Ali Ndiwalana have decided to revise the application based on feedback from VR and will include Sandy Ross with expert knowledge on the sociology of money in the revised application that will be submitted in April 2014. 11 Profile area: ICT for Crisis and disaster management Funding applications and On-going research projects As mentioned earlier (see page 5) this profile area received a Vinnova grant and the idea for the research is to bring together the expertise that exists within the centre for Climate & Safety on the flood hazards that exist today as well as in the future. It is important to acquire knowledge of how hazards can be managed by the community, with the expertise that exists in computer science, informatics and media and communication studies on computer-assisted monitoring, warning and communication and knowledge of the relationship between computers and human beings. An initial project workshop was run simultaneous in Karlstad and Östersund in December 2013 with many different sorts of stakeholders. The workshop was supported by video conferencing and on-line documentation. From this as well as from study visits and discussions with invited guests, the stakeholder analysis has highlighted the need for continuous training, possibly IT-supported rather than more of the physical arrangements that normally are considered as exercises and awareness-raising activities for crises preparedness. The preliminary requirements include both individual training and cooperation, and the form should allow for ‘slow’ training such as half an hour a week but stretched over several weeks or months. Also designing the scenarios and problems to be used is a pertinent requirement as such work has proven to raise the awareness of the participating organisations concerning deficiencies in their preparedness. Involvement of public is also highlighted but not yet defined precisely for the training system even if good examples exist for instance in Karlstad Kommun’s Facebook page for collecting or distributing information rapidly. The pilot project financed by VINNOVA will result in one or more applications in autumn 2014, possibly with the two county boards of Värmland and Jämtland as applying partner. Industrial Cooperation HumanIT strengthened relations with Compare and gained visibility with others during the Internet and Security Conference, where HumanIT sponsored a lunch as mentioned earlier, and together with Mikael Lundtröm distributed flyers and discussed the centre and its research profiles with conference delegates. Konsument Europa and Compare, organized a seminar with Jussi Kosninen presenting from Paypal, what the future looked like for online and mobile commerce. The seminar was widely communicated at Karlstad University and attended by Caroline. Seminar Series A number of seminars were given during the year. Some of these were HumanIT seminars, others were in cooperation with other centers or departments at the University as well as the industry in the region. 3 April 2013 Ilkin Mehrobov Doctoral Candidate from Geography, Media and Communications presented his doctoral proposal. The Seminar was part of Media Communications seminar. 12 8 May 2013 Seminar co-organized with Konsument Europa and Compare, Karlstad. Hur vill du handla på nätet och med mobilen i framtiden? Jussi Koskinen från PayPal berättar om senaste nytt inom M-commerce. 8 May 2013 A Seminar from the department of Geography, Media & Communications Studies by Prof. André Jansson who discussed the Kinetic Elites Project, specifically the theoretical and methodological challenges. 22 May 2013 A 60% doctoral seminar from MKV, with doctoral candidate Johan Lindell the department of Media and Communication Studies. Seminar titled: Expanding Social Imaginaries: Cosmopolitanism in a Mediatized World. Dr. Magnus Andersson, senior lecturer at Malmö University, was the opponent during the seminar. 29 May 2013, PhD Candidate Frank van Geelkerken, one of the HumanIT PhD Candidates doing his PhD in law presented his ongoing research at the HumanIT seminar. 21 August 2013, Florencia Enghel, doctoral candidate with Geography, Media & Communication Studies department, had her 60% seminar on “A qualitative study of videoletters.” Dr. Alexandra Segerberg, senior lecturer at Stockholm University, was Florencia's opponent during the seminar. 2 September 2013. HumanIT MFS (Minor Field Studies) scholarships recipients Raul Ferrer, and Kelsey Williams presented their field studies towards their masters degrees, from Ghana and Lebanon, respectively. 5 September 2013, MKV higher seminar, with Maria Luna, PhD Candidate & research assistant from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain presented on Mapping heterotopias in Colombian armed conflict documentary films: 2002-2010. 16 October 2013, Seminar by Ida Lindgren presenting her PhD thesis on Public e-service stakeholders. A study on who matters for public e-service development and implementation from Linköping University. 16 October 2013, an MKV seminar with Dr Martin Berg, Senior Lecturer at the department of Sociology at Halmstad University, presenting on the Mediatization of everyday life: Facebook as a social intermediary 1 November 2013, a CS colloquium given by candidates for the PriSec PhD position. Guest Speaker was Anna Giannakou with a presentation titled “Generating energy aware software by means of Multi-objective evolutionary Algorithms 6 November 2013, Presenting her on-going research with the Centre for Gender studies, Caroline Wamala had a seminar with the title, “The missing scripts in ICT4D”. 7 November 2013, Raul Ferrer defended his master’s thesis – Mobile accessibility in disaster environments: Accessing mobile technology in crisis management in Ghana 27 November 2013, a seminar organized by MKV with Virgina Melián who discussed Social media use by new social movements in the context of Latin America. 28 November 2013, Researchers from Information Systems at Karlstad University presented 13 presented an overview of what IS researchers as KAU are investigating. The seminar was titled: eService Modelling, Design and Use 3 December 2013, HumanIT invited PhD Candidate, Peter Wikström from the department of Linguistics to give a presentation of his research. His topic for the seminar was “ I tweet like I talk ^_^: Modality and affordance on Twitter.” 8 January 2014, Seminar organized by MKV with Dr Tina Askanius, postdoctoral researcher at the department of Media and Communication from Lund University. The topic of discussion was Online video Activism and Political Mash-up Genres. 22 January 2014, Johan Lindell, doctoral candidate in Media and Communication Studies had his 90% seminar on Explanding Social Imaginaries: Cosmopilitanism in a Mediatized World. Dr. Alexa Robertson, associate professor at Stockholm University, was Johan's opponent during the seminar. 5 February 2014, an MKV seminar with Jakob Svensson titled “Cock fighting in the Digital age: Political participation on the LGBT community Qruiser”. 12 February 2014, Higher seminar update on Post doc projects delivered by Dr James Pamment, Post-Doctoral researcher at the department of Radio-Television-Film The University of Texas Austin, USA. 19 February 2014, Higher seminar with Dr Anders Larsson, post-doctoral fellow at the department of Media and communication, Oslo University, Norway: Seminar title “Political communication online – examples from Norway and Sweden. Evaluation of HumanIT seminars Following the recommendation of the HumanIT board, an audit of the HumanIT seminars was carried out during the autumn with the following results. The questionnaire circulated to seminar participants is attached to this document as an annex. These results will be published online after collecting more opinions in the Spring of 2014. 9 responses were obtained from attendants. Surveys circulated were seldom filled in by those in attendance, and an alternative would be to prepare a questionnaire using survey and report and circulate that in the HumanIT mailing list instead and see what responses are obtained. 14 The first questions focused on communication regarding the seminars and as shown in the diagrams below, the general consensus is that the seminars are communicated in good time and that reminders are highly appreciated. The next question asked whether seminars should be held in the same location. Of the seven respondents, four thought that this would be an excellent move, one thought it was unacceptable to have the seminars in the same location, a third response was that the location of the seminars did not matter, as the selection made was “not applicable”, and another response felt that it was not acceptable to host the seminars in the same location every time. The third question asked if the format of the seminars was acceptable, i.e. presenters present their work, followed by questions and comments, and the following responses were obtained. As shown in the pie chart respondents are satisfied with current format the seminars are in. A question on the value placed on the HumanIT seminars produced the following responses Four respondents felt that the seminars were invaluable, one was satisfied and the respondent who noted that this question was not applicable had never been to a humanIT seminar before, as they stated in their comments section of the questionnaire, it was therefore difficult for them to say what value the seminars provided. 15 Not all questions were answered. Two of the respondents only provided comments in the section requesting feedback on what could be improved about the seminars. The comments provided are as follows: “Might be a good idea to have the same location, some places such as Minerva in house 12 aren’t that good since the audience faces each other as opposed to the presenter” “It might be a good idea to have discussants with each presentation especially good for doctoral candidates who are preparing conference presentations.” “The level of assistance is too low” “Attract people from different departments for a more interdisciplinary discussion” “Jag har deltagit i for få HumanIT seminarier for att kunna besvara frågorna tidsbrist; konkurrerande aktiviteter och främsta anledningen, inte kvalitén eller formen for seminarierna som sådan. Ej heller bristen på information (Jag får via maillistan)” “I find the seminars to be highly informative and constructive. I do believe most of the criticisms are highly professional but can be unnecessarily highly opinionated. I believe all presenters do a great job over the course of their presentation and have the right to agree or disagree with a remark made by a fellow colleague. Personally I believe the presenter should take more initiative in defending their stance on their research as opposed to be acceptable to the criticism of their fellow associates”. Although the response rate is low, there is value associated with the HumanIT seminars, and after the autumn term experience with hosting these seminars, it should be as suggested by the HumanIT board, productive to request registration of attendance prior to the occasion so that a decision whether to hold the seminar or postpone it can be made. Organisation and Information management As mentioned earlier, Jakob Svensson’s directorship tenure ended in August 2013. Caroline who up until then had been the ICT4D coordinator was elected by the board to assume the position of director after Jakob. This change also meant that the agreement with the board members had to be renewed. All board members unanimously agreed to stay until 2016. During 2013, 7 board meetings were held. An emergency board meeting was convened for 23rd December 2013, to discuss and find solutions to Caroline’s (as director) employment situation. Twitter is being used by the center as a news broadcaster and as of today has a record of 1 146 tweets, 367 followers and is following 520 others. Publications in 2013 Ilkin Mehrabov, 2013, 'Turkey and the 'Copyleft' Music Production: Reflections on Bandista', IASPM@Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 80-90. (Special issue: "The Digital Nation: Copyright, Technology and Politics"). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2012)v3i1.7en 16 Wamala, C.V. (2013) I have to give an “I can” attitude: Gender Patterns in Beeping Practices. SageOpen 3(1) Angulo, Julio (2013). Profiles: prototyping an online information segregation service in Kurosu, M., (eds). Human-Computer Interaction: Users and Contexts of Use, volume 8006, Proceedings Part III, Springer. Enghel, Florencia (2013). Children’s Well-Being and Communication in Asher Ben-Arieh, Ferran Casas, Ivar Frønes & Jill E. Korbin (eds). Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods and Policies in Global Perspective, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Sao Paulo Enghel, Florencia (2013). Diferentes, desiguales y desconectados: la comunicación para el desarrollo como interrogante I Castillo Rocha, Carmen; Murillo Licea Daniel y Quiroz Carranza Roxana (eds),. Comunicación y desarrollo en la agenda latinoamericana del siglo XXI. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida Enghel, Florencia (2013). Communication, Development, and Social Change: Future Alternatives. In Karin G. Wilkins, Joseph D Straubhaar & Shanti Kumar (eds). Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication, Routledge, London and New York pp 119141. Fischer-Hübner, Simone; Berthold, Stefan (2013). 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