Hi all, Barry rocked the audience at the ACM Web Science 2011. I sincerely hope you consider engaging with ACM Web Science 2012. A small correction to the dates of the ACM Web Science 2012 conference in Evanston. It is June 21-24, 2012 - not June 12-24 , 2012 (I am not that indefatigable) .... Have a great weekend! Noshir Noshir  Contractor Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences Northwestern University Program Assistant: Marilyn Logan (mjlogan@northwestern.edu) -----Original Message----- From: Barry Wellman [mailto:wellman@chass.utoronto.ca] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 10:32 AM To: communication and information technology section asa; social networks list; aoir list Cc: Noshir Contractor Subject: Web Science conference in Evanston IL (Chicago-ish) June 22-24 I just locknoted ACM's Webscience 11 in Koblenz. At the end of which the indefatigable Nosh Contractor announced that he (and colleagues) will host the next ACM Web Science conference in Evanston, June 12-24 2012 (Kellogg School, Northwestern U), right after the Network Science conference June 19-22 at the same venue. If you're wondering what "web science" is, it's mostly work by computer scientists eager to build more social science understanding into their research. Much like the early days of the social networks network (INSNA) and the internet researchers of AOIR, it's heavily weighted towards eager young students, many of whom are either building apps or are doing studies of Internet use and users. Steffan Stabb and York Sure led the current conference. Nosh Contractor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Dame Wendy Hall, Peter Monge, Janet Fulk have been active. For more info, contact Noshir Contractor <ncontractor4@gmail.com>, nosh@northwestern.edu, Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________