SoLAR -- the Society for Learning Analytics Research -- is organizing a summer institute on learning analytics at Stanford July 1-5, 2013. Please see this site for details of the institute, plus info on live-streaming and some regional Institutes and local events that will run in parallel.

http://www.solaresearch.org/events/lasi/

For more on SoLAR and learning analytics, see:

http://www.solaresearch.org/

/Caroline Haythornthwaite

(Message forwarded to list from Barry Wellman)

Networked: The New Social Operating System

Received Honorable Mention (2d prize) for the PROSE award in Sociology &
Social Work from the Association of American Publishers (1st person to
reference Samuel Johnson gets a cup of coffee)

Congrats to first prize winner:

Princeton University Press
Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of
Ambiguous Danger By Harvey Molotch

and the other Honorable Mention winner:
Oxford University Press
Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community By Eviatar
Zerubavel

Barry Wellman
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